Juli Tera
Software Development Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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RockstarJuli Tera is a Software Development Engineer based in Seattle with four years of experience building reliable backend systems, currently contributing at Amazon Web Services. She brings practical expertise in improving SDKs and distributed messaging, having contributed to the widely used aws-sdk-ruby by fixing JRuby checksum behavior, adding request compression, and deduplicating SQS message batches. Her work reflects a focus on stability, performance, and developer ergonomics across both runtime and build/configuration concerns. Colleagues would describe her as detail-oriented and pragmatic—tackling subtle protocol and configuration issues that often hide in production. Outside of work she values playful engineering, as her GitHub bio hints: fun things are fun.
4 years of coding experience
Github Skills (10)
ruby10
aws-sdk10
amazon-sqs9
checksum9
checker9
algorithm9
aws-sqs-fifo9
jruby8
aws7
cloud-computing7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
aws/aws-sdk-ruby
Apr 2023 - Mar 2025
The official AWS SDK for Ruby
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:120 reviews, 60 PRs, 145 pushes in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Juli contributed to the AWS SDK for Ruby, focusing on enhancing the functionality and stability of the SDK. Their work involved fixing checksum algorithm specifications for JRuby and adding support for request compression. They also addressed issues in the SQS QueuePoller, specifically deduplicating message batches. Additionally, the user addressed build and configuration aspects by bumping the minimum core version and fixing plugin option configurations.
sdkaws-sdkrubycloudaws
ada-c17/Intersection-Linked-List
Sep 2022 - Mar 2025
An exercise working with Linked Lists
Contributions:2 PRs in 2 years 7 months
linked-listslists
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