Summary
Terrence Howard is a pragmatic software engineer with 13 years of experience building and optimizing web applications and services, now contributing to Aircraft Performance Group from Commerce City, Colorado. He has a strong record of improving performance at scale—most notably reducing search response times by up to 87% and driving a 183% increase in daily searches at ProQuest—while replacing REST endpoints with a custom GraphQL library to streamline data access. Comfortable across the stack, he’s delivered e-commerce systems, billing and import tools, and developer-friendly Docker sandboxes, and has taken on informal leadership roles like mentoring and sprint planning. Known for digging into production issues, tracing problems across distributed systems, and automating tedious data tasks, he brings a practical focus on measurable impact and developer ergonomics.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Computer Science Computer Science, Bachelors of Computer Science Computer Science at University of Central Florida
English