Ty Terdan
Senior Backend Software Engineer at Atlassian
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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Top SchoolTy Terdan is a Senior Backend Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building scalable systems and shipping production-grade software from startup to enterprise. Based in Sunnyvale, he currently drives backend work at Atlassian and has deep Java expertise demonstrated by meaningful contributions to the high-profile javaparser project, where he extended the Java Symbol Solver and improved AST handling and test coverage. He combines backend engineering with strong UI/UX instincts from prior full‑stack and visualization roles, having built VR code-visualization tools and optimized large-scale visualizations with spatial acceleration structures. Ty has led teams and mentored engineers while delivering features across mobile, web, and backend stacks in healthcare and enterprise domains. Practical and quality-focused, he favors pragmatic design, performance optimizations, and tooling that enables rapid customer-driven iteration.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at University of RochesterBachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science & Engineering, 3.675, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science & Engineering, 3.675 at The Ohio State University
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Github Skills (11)
parserator10
javas10
code-analysis10
parser10
javaparser10
java10
abstract-syntax-tree10
testing10
reflection9
reflections9
code-generation4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
javaparser/javaparser
Mar 2017 - Apr 2017
Java 1-21 Parser and Abstract Syntax Tree for Java with advanced analysis functionalities.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits in 18 days
Contributions summary:Ty contributed to the `javaparser/javaparser` project by implementing and extending the functionality of the Java Symbol Solver. They added methods for retrieving package and class names, specifically for different declaration types like classes, interfaces, enums, and type parameters. The user also improved the project's structure by differentiating between field and inner class dot expressions and adding tests for the newly implemented features, enhancing the project's reliability and maintainability.
code-generationjavaparserjavasymbolsolvercode-generatorsyntax-tree
tnterdan/BattleGame
Nov 2012 - Dec 2012
Contributions:15 commits in 6 days
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