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I'm Terry Aliess, a Senior Software Engineer with over 9 years of experience designing and developing scalable distributed systems and cloud-native platforms across MERN stacks and microservices. I thrive on building robust, high-performance backends and thoughtful frontends, always focused on delivering reliable, user-centric software. I excel in backend architecture, API design, and end-to-end delivery, mentoring teams toward robust engineering standards and best practices in fast-paced environments. I enjoy solving complex problems, optimizing data pipelines, and accelerating product delivery while maintaining a strong emphasis on quality and maintainability.…I'm Terry Aliess, a Senior Software Engineer with over 9 years of experience designing and developing scalable distributed systems and cloud-native platforms across MERN stacks and microservices. I thrive on building robust, high-performance backends and thoughtful frontends, always focused on delivering reliable, user-centric software. I excel in backend architecture, API design, and end-to-end delivery, mentoring teams toward robust engineering standards and best practices in fast-paced environments. I enjoy solving complex problems, optimizing data pipelines, and accelerating product delivery while maintaining a strong emphasis on quality and maintainability.

Terry Aliess

Back-End Developer, Front-End Developer, Full Stack Developer, +1

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I'm Terry Aliess, a Senior Software Engineer with over 9 years of experience designing and developing scalable distributed systems and cloud-native platforms across MERN stacks and microservices. I thrive on building robust, high-performance backends and thoughtful frontends, always focused on delivering reliable, user-centric software. I excel in backend architecture, API design, and end-to-end delivery, mentoring teams toward robust engineering standards and best practices in fast-paced environments. I enjoy solving complex problems, optimizing data pipelines, and accelerating product delivery while maintaining a strong emphasis on quality and maintainability.…I'm Terry Aliess, a Senior Software Engineer with over 9 years of experience designing and developing scalable distributed systems and cloud-native platforms across MERN stacks and microservices. I thrive on building robust, high-performance backends and thoughtful frontends, always focused on delivering reliable, user-centric software. I excel in backend architecture, API design, and end-to-end delivery, mentoring teams toward robust engineering standards and best practices in fast-paced environments. I enjoy solving complex problems, optimizing data pipelines, and accelerating product delivery while maintaining a strong emphasis on quality and maintainability.

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I’m Terry Aliess, a Senior Software Engineer with over 9 years of experience designing and developing scalable distributed systems and cloud-native platforms across MERN stacks and microservices. I thrive on building robust, high-performance backends and thoughtful frontends, always focused on delivering reliable, user-centric software.

I excel in backend architecture, API design, and end-to-end delivery, mentoring teams toward robust engineering standards and best practices in fast-paced environments. I enjoy solving complex problems, optimizing data pipelines, and accelerating product delivery while maintaining a strong emphasis on quality and maintainability.

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Work Experience

Senior Software Engineer at VersaPay

January 1, 2017 - December 1, 2019

Led full-stack development for a MERN-based platform, building predictive analytics components with Ruby on Rails and React to support enterprise financial decision-making. Implemented mission-critical backend APIs to automate workflows, optimized MongoDB schemas and embeddings for improved semantic retrieval, and established CI/CD and MLOps pipelines to shorten release cycles while boosting reliability. Drove real-time data features and enterprise readiness for high-scale production.

Senior Software Engineer at Alpaca

January 1, 2020 - August 1, 2023

Full-Stack development building predictive analytics components with Ruby on Rails and React, boosting model accuracy and enabling data-driven decisions. Implemented high-throughput backend APIs (Node.js) and robust data pipelines, and designed scalable data models. Led testing and validation across Rails and MERN environments.

Senior Software Engineer

October 1, 2023 - Present

Direct enterprise-wide architectural decisions leveraging the MERN stack and Ruby on Rails, establishing scalable development standards and driving rapid product delivery in a remote US-based environment. Orchestrated end-to-end CI/CD pipelines and backend/frontend integration.