Ferron H
Technical Team Lead at Tera Analytics
Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
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Top SchoolFerron H is a Technical Team Lead with 13 years of experience delivering scalable, search-driven systems and cloud-native infrastructure from Port of Spain. He combines deep hands-on expertise across the stack — Node.js, C#, Java, Elasticsearch, Redis, RabbitMQ, SQL and NoSQL — with practical DevOps skills in Docker, Kubernetes and multi-cloud deployments. Ferron has led architecture and ETL work for high-throughput platforms (designing systems handling millions of daily events) and maintains widely used open-source tooling for Elasticsearch/Opensearch, contributing features and stability fixes to projects like elasticsearch-dump and bodybuilder. A pragmatic programmer and polyglot developer, he thrives on solving compatibility and streaming challenges (e.g., large-dataset split streams and S3/MinIO connectors) while mentoring teams. Beyond engineering, he pursues photography as a creative outlet, reflecting a habit of noticing detail that informs his careful, test-first approach to code. He holds an MSc and BA in Computer Science from The University of the West Indies and blends entrepreneurial early-stage experience with enterprise-grade delivery.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc) Computer Science, Master of Science (MSc) Computer Science at University of the West Indies, St. Augustine CampusBA Computer Science, BA Computer Science at The University of the West IndiesHigh School Diploma Computer Science & History, High School Diploma Computer Science & History at Jamaica College
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Github Skills (21)
javascript10
back-end-development10
builder-pattern10
amazon-elasticsearch10
elasticsearchquery10
aws-elasticsearch10
querydsl10
elasticsearch10
builders10
builder-io10
elasticsearch-api10
testing9
nodejs9
epoch6
orm6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
elasticsearch-dump/elasticsearch-dump
Jan 2018 - Jan 2023
Import and export tools for elasticsearch & opensearch
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:128 releases, 5 reviews, 785 commits in 5 years
Contributions summary:Ferron's contributions primarily involve fixing build failures, refactoring existing tests and adding tests for the elasticsearch-dump project. They implemented changes to support Elasticsearch versions 6.x and performed several code modifications to account for changes in how features such as scrolling work in newer versions. The developer has demonstrated expertise in ensuring the stability and compatibility of the project across different Elasticsearch versions. Additionally, they've worked on improving file stream support and addressing various edge cases.
exportimport-and-exportjavascriptdockeropensearch
danpaz/bodybuilder
Apr 2016 - Feb 2020
An elasticsearch query body builder :muscle:
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 review, 74 commits, 31 PRs in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Ferron primarily contributed to the `bodybuilder` repository by adding new filter functionalities. These additions include implementing fuzzy, wildcard, and match filters, enhancing the query body builder's capabilities for Elasticsearch. The user also added support for multiple sort fields, improving the flexibility of the query building process. The user was actively involved in both adding new features and testing them.
querymusclejavascriptquerydslbody
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