Kyle Terry
Staff Software Engineer at Paxton
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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SeniorKyle Terry is a Staff Software Engineer in Portland, Oregon with 16 years building backend systems, cloud infrastructure, and automation across startups and acquisitions. He specializes in Go, Kubernetes, Terraform, and AWS, having designed SaaS backends, edge APIs, and Kubernetes controllers for teams at Puppet/Perforce and now leading DevOps and infrastructure initiatives at Paxton. Kyle has a practical track record of moving large datasets, scaling e-commerce systems, and turning configuration management into repeatable automation—skills honed from hands-on roles stretching back to systems administration. Known for a terse, get-it-done style ("I fling code needing to be flung"), he pairs pragmatic engineering with deep operational experience, making him effective at both building services and running them in production.
16 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (200)
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
kyleterry/shitbucket
Nov 2014 - Feb 2016
Contributions:44 commits, 29 pushes in 1 year 3 months
kyleterry/quasar
Jan 2015 - Apr 2017
Contributions:32 commits, 27 pushes, 3 issues in 2 years 3 months
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