Jerry Balderas
Tech Lead at Crusader Games
Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex United States
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Top SchoolJerry Balderas is a tech lead and principal-level full stack engineer based in the Dallas–Fort Worth area with over a decade of experience designing and delivering scalable, cloud-native applications. He excels at bridging front-end and back-end concerns—shipping Angular UIs, serverless Azure Functions, and resilient Cosmos DB-backed services—while driving CI/CD, test coverage, and architecture improvements. At First Advantage he led contactless drug-screening and a patent-pending computer vision label reader that boosted OCR accuracy from ~30% to 80% across 20k samples, showing a knack for applying research-grade techniques to production problems. He has significant experience training and scaling teams, from rapidly shrinking a developer bench during COVID to producing hundreds of client-ready full-stack engineers via enablement programs. Comfortable across Java, .NET, Node.js, and cloud platforms, he pairs hands-on coding with mentoring and process transformation to lift delivery quality. His background includes embedded and tooling work at Intel and creative projects like monetized Minecraft plugins, revealing both system-level rigor and playful product instincts.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at United States Naval AcademyBachelor of Science (B.S.) with Honors Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) with Honors Computer Engineering at The Ohio State University
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Github Skills (25)
minecraft10
spigot10
discord9
java9
bukkit9
server-side8
paper8
essentials8
google-app-engine6
multithreading6
message-board5
reddit4
social-media4
bungeecord3
censorship-resistance3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
midnjerry/bug-wars-ui
Oct 2020 - Jul 2022
Contributions:52 commits, 44 PRs, 79 pushes in 1 year 9 months
midnjerry/text-game
May 2020 - Apr 2022
Sample text game.
Contributions:2 PRs, 6 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 11 months
crosswordgametext-gameraycastingpuzzle
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