Finn Terdal
Senior Software Engineer at Pluralsight
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFinn Terdal is a senior software engineer with 11+ years building full-stack web systems, mentoring engineers, and shaping curriculum for budding developers. He thrives in collaborative, iterative teams and prefers direct stakeholder engagement to turn fuzzy product intuition into measurable, auditable features. His background spans PHP and Linux hosting, Python/Django APIs, Node/React/Postgres stacks, large-scale video-processing pipelines, and HIPAA-sensitive Rails/Elm systems—demonstrating an ability to learn new stacks quickly and responsibly. He has led migrations (NoSQL to Postgres), extension rewrites for Chrome MV3, and designed infrastructure for terabytes of ffmpeg processing, showing both product and operational focus. Beyond coding, Finn’s years as an instructor and lead mentor inform his pragmatic approach to developer growth and curriculum-driven quality. Based in New York, he balances hands-on engineering with a strong emphasis on security, auditability, and real-world product usage.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Portland State UniversityBachelor of Arts (BA) Philosophy, Bachelor of Arts (BA) Philosophy at Reed College
Github Skills (50)
scaffold10
boilerplate10
eslint9
typescript8
blessed7
rendering7
renderer7
macos6
cli6
react6
azerothcore6
windows6
linux6
javascript6
eslint-plugin5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
team-scissors/getaway
Sep 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:215 commits, 54 PRs, 133 pushes in 21 days
reactroaddjangotraveljavascript
TGFR/anchor
Sep 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:35 PRs, 80 pushes, 14 branches in 7 days
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