Summary
Terence Schumacher is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer based in Seattle with 12 years of experience building scalable, cross-platform systems and driving platform reliability. He has a strong track record at Tableau leading modular architecture efforts for Apple Silicon and the JVM using Spring Boot, Gradle/Kotlin, and modern API patterns like GraphQL, while integrating Kafka and PostgreSQL for real-time distributed capabilities. A pragmatic engineering leader, Terence sustained 100% sprint delivery, accelerated feature throughput by 15% through pipeline and cross-team optimizations, and ran telemetry-driven canary and staged rollouts to minimize customer impact. He pairs hands-on technical depth—SME-level knowledge of Gradle, Kotlin, build systems, and release tooling—with mentorship across junior and senior engineers to speed onboarding and raise team standards. His background spans full lifecycle work from CI/CD and QA automation to embedded speech prototypes and Dockerized mobile chatbots, reflecting a rare blend of infrastructure, backend, and product-focused engineering. Terence embeds Customer Trust and security into development practice, turning non-functional requirements into measurable resilience and user confidence.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science and Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science and Software Engineering at University of Washington
Associate of Science (A.S.) Computer Science, Associate of Science (A.S.) Computer Science at Edmonds College
High School Diploma High School/Secondary Diploma Programs, High School Diploma High School/Secondary Diploma Programs at Shorewood High School
Associates of Arts Applied Sciences in Music; Digital Audio Engineering/Analog Sound Recording, Associates of Arts Applied Sciences in Music; Digital Audio Engineering/Analog Sound Recording at Shoreline Community College
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