Summary
Drew Teter is a seasoned software developer and technical lead with 11 years of experience building scalable web applications and cloud infrastructure, currently leading engineering at CircleBlack while also serving as IT Lead for Artisan's Asylum. He brings deep Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, and AWS expertise, having modernized systems at organizations from Harvard Medical School to Zipcar and shipped serverless APIs and banking integrations. Drew pairs hands-on engineering—rewriting billing systems, redesigning paratransit booking workflows, and implementing SAML authentication—with mentorship and developer coaching, regularly doing pair programming and code reviews. He has a hacker-maker sensibility from running a consultancy and stewarding a nonprofit makerspace, which informs pragmatic, user-focused solutions and an emphasis on operational reliability. A physics-trained thinker, he combines analytical rigor with practical product delivery and a knack for simplifying complex, cross-organizational workflows.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Ruby on Rails, Ruby on Rails at Dev Bootcamp
Physics, Physics at Wells College