Summary
Terry Knowlton is a seasoned tech lead and hands-on engineering manager with 13 years of experience building scalable, always-on cloud systems and microservices, currently leading teams at mabl. He specializes in Java backend development and Spring-based headless services, with deep domain experience in physical security, access control, and video monitoring. Terry combines architecture and implementation, shepherding data model changes across Postgres, Cassandra, and MySQL while migrating legacy systems to modern cloud-native stacks. He mentors engineers, serves as a tier-3 support and community manager for third-party developers, and acts as a cross-functional liaison to product, QA, and operations. Notably, he has designed core APIs and OAuth2 authorization services and built Kubernetes-based secure tunneling and queue-processing infrastructures that bridge cloud services with on-prem and IoT hardware.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, 2014, Master's degree, Computer Science, 2014 at The George Washington University
Bachelor's degree, Telecommunications and Information Studies, 2006, Bachelor's degree, Telecommunications and Information Studies, 2006 at Michigan State University