Summary
Terry Burns-dyson is a seasoned software leader with 14 years of engineering experience and a track record of building and scaling products from telco-era reservation systems to modern cloud-enabled platforms. Currently Director of Engineering at ExPrep after serving as Staff Software Engineer at FieldRoutes and leading multi-site teams as a Software Development Manager at AMSTAT, he blends hands-on development with people leadership across NJ and international teams. Terry has deep full-stack experience — .NET, Angular, Kafka, SQL Server, MongoDB and mobile — and a history of introducing resilient offline and messaging solutions in constrained environments. He shares his learning publicly via developer livestreams on Twitch, combining practical engineering with mentorship and continuous improvement. Known for turning legacy challenges into forward-looking architectures, he brings curiosity and a disciplined, team-first approach to shipping reliable software.
14 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer