Terry Jia
Senior Consultant at Veriday
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolTerry Jia is a Senior Consultant based in Old Toronto with 15 years of software engineering experience, specializing in Liferay portal development and IDE tooling. He spent nearly a decade as IDE Lead Engineer at Liferay, Inc., where he led back-end work and contributed to UI test infrastructure for the widely used liferay-ide project. At Veriday he has transitioned those platform and integration skills into consultancy, helping teams bridge legacy portal technology with modern development workflows. Terry combines deep familiarity with Eclipse/IntelliJ plugin ecosystems and pragmatic test-driven practices to improve developer experience and product reliability. He holds a Master’s in Computer Science and brings the perspective of an open-source practitioner who focuses on maintainable tests and tooling rather than headline features. Colleagues describe him as a quietly persistent engineer who improves long-term quality through careful test work and tooling refinements.
15 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Software engineering, Bachelor's degree, Software engineering at NeusoftMaster's degree, Computer science, Master's degree, Computer science at Bishop's University
Github Skills (5)
unit-testing10
uitest10
ui-testing10
java9
javas9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
liferay/liferay-ide
Jan 2014 - Oct 2019
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1047 commits, 49 PRs, 2 comments in 5 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Terry's commits primarily focus on modifying and updating unit tests, specifically within the context of a Liferay IDE repository. They are removing and updating code snippets for the purpose of test functionality as well as verifying functionality of the UI. The changes involve modifying files related to UI tests and testing scripts.
jtydhr88/liferay-ide-tests
Mar 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:67 PRs, 62 pushes, 137 branches in 1 year
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