Marie Terrell
Senior Software Engineer at Boston Dynamics
Whitman, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMarie Terrell is a Senior Software Engineer with seven years of experience specializing in configuration management, CI/CD, and modernizing legacy build and packaging systems for scientific software. After leading a multi-year migration from ClearCase to Git and overhauling build infrastructure at the Harvard‑Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, she now applies those skills at Boston Dynamics to scale reliable delivery pipelines. She combines a Computer Engineering BS (3.7) with a 4.0 Software Engineering program at Harvard Extension, bringing both rigorous academic training and hands‑on systems work. Known for coordinating cross-team change in mission-critical environments, she has practical expertise in virtualization, testing, and consumer-off-the-shelf package integration that speeds development and deployment. Based in Whitman, Massachusetts, Marie pairs a research-oriented background in astrophysics tooling with pragmatic engineering that reduces build time and increases flexibility.
7 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
UMass LowellSoftware Engineering, 4.0, Software Engineering, 4.0 at Harvard Extension School
Github Skills (25)
python10
astronomy10
statistics10
issue-tracking10
science10
anaconda6
conda6
smithy5
linux5
constructor5
test-data4
spec4
modeling-tool4
package-management4
agent-based-modeling4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Marie-Terrell/sherpa
Nov 2019 - Dec 2024
Sherpa is a modeling and fitting application for Python. Come work with us: https://jobregister.aas.org/ad/abc64499
Contributions:259 pushes, 73 branches, 1 tag in 5 years 1 month
pythonagent-based-modelingsherpafittingaas
sherpa/xspec-build
Jan 2019 - Jan 2025
A temporary repository for creating a reproducible way of building X-Spec. Eventually, the result of this work will be used in Sherpa.
Contributions:1 PR, 2 branches, 3 comments in 6 years
sherpaspecreproducible
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