Michael Terry
Software Engineer at Boston Children's Hospital
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Terry is a seasoned software engineer with 22 years of experience, currently building healthcare software at Boston Children's Hospital after a long tenure as a Principal Software Engineer at edX and nearly a decade at Canonical. He is an open-source generalist who contributes across the stack—from React front-end refinements and accessibility fixes in Open edX to backend work on course discovery, ecommerce, Snapcraft build tooling, and reliability improvements in restic. Comfortable with DevOps and provisioning, he’s improved complex development environments like Open edX devstack and tackled cross-platform issues for Macs and BSDs. Known for pragmatic, maintainable fixes and thoughtful UI polish, he blends product-focused engineering with deep systems understanding. Based in Cambridge, MA, he brings a mix of academic grounding from UMass Amherst and proven ability to ship durable, community-facing software.
22 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at University of Massachusetts Amherst
Github Skills (54)
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Programming languages (27)
Github contributions (5)
openedx/course-discovery
Jan 2018 - Mar 2022
Service providing access to consolidated course and program metadata
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:71 reviews, 217 commits, 459 PRs in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Michael's contributions primarily focused on maintaining and updating the backend service for course discovery, working on the course metadata models. They made several code changes in Python, including updates to the edx-lint configuration to fix build errors, as well as edits to models.py and test files. The user's work primarily involves fixing bugs, implementing changes to existing features, and ensuring code quality and compatibility with existing dependencies.
data-managementconsolidateditilbackend-servicemetadata
ubports/unity8
Jun 2013 - Apr 2017
The operating environment for everywhere.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1599 commits in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Michael made commits focused on refining the user interface, primarily targeting the appearance and positioning of UI elements. Their work involved adjusting the visual aspects of the UI, specifically modifying the layout, spacing, and colors of buttons and labels within the greeter application. These changes improved the user experience and visual consistency, while also aligning with design standards.
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