Andrew Terra
Tech Lead at Southwest Airlines
Dallas, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Terra is a Tech Lead with 11 years of software engineering experience, currently driving platform and integration efforts at Southwest Airlines after a progression of delivery and leadership roles at Accenture. He blends hands-on full-stack development (Java/Spring, Scala, Akka, cloud microservices) with team coaching—introducing TDD, pair programming, and CI/CD practices that measurably improved quality, velocity, and performance. His work spans high-impact projects from migrating monoliths to cloud-native microservices and OAuth-secured APIs to building event-driven operational data platforms leveraging Kafka and Kubernetes. An active contributor to OpenOSRS plugin projects, he applies game-focused real-time overlays and robustness fixes in open-source Java plugins, showing a knack for low-latency, user-facing tooling. A SMU computer science graduate with a 3.9 GPA, he pairs rigorous academic grounding with pragmatic engineering—often automating operational workflows and performance baselines to shift testing left. He’s driven by building systems that enable real-time business decisions and by mentoring teams to ship reliable, scalable software.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, 3.9/4.0, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, 3.9/4.0 at Lyle School of Engineering - Southern Methodist University
Github Skills (16)
plugin-development10
gradle10
configuration-management10
javas10
overlay10
game-development10
gradlew10
overlays10
java10
user-interface8
git8
apidoc7
api7
kotlin7
github-ci4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
xKylee/plugins-source
Aug 2020 - Mar 2021
External OpenOSRS plugins (source code)
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:18 commits, 22 PRs, 2 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily contributed to the development of Runelite plugins, focusing on in-game features and overlays for the Old School Runescape game. The commits demonstrate implementation of features within the "nightmare" and "theatre" plugins, including modifications to overlays, adding menu options, and incorporating new functionalities like highlighting targets and adding screen flashes. The changes span across Java code for the plugins, configs, and gradle files, indicating a broad understanding of the plugin's codebase and related configurations.
openosrsauto-updatezonesrundeckperl
open-osrs/plugins
Aug 2020 - Feb 2021
Contains all officially supported OpenOSRS plugins
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 3 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily contributed to the "tickcounter" and "experiencedrop" plugins. They added and updated functionality, specifically adding new weapons to the tick counter and updating the XP drop plugin to prevent a NullPointerException. Additionally, the user updated the version information for both plugins, as well as adjusting comments and incorporating merged changes from the main branch. They also added region coordinates to the tile location tooltip in the devtools plugin.
openosrssupported
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