# Brian Terczynski

> Staff Software Engineer, Android Platform Lead, Thumbtack

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/brianterczynski

31+ years of experience in software development. 11 years in Android development (Kotlin, Java, Compose, View System, Coroutines, RxKotlin/RxJava, ViewModels, Jetpack Navigation, Espresso, Robolectric, Roborazzi, MVVM, MVP). Prior experience in writing and designing server-side software in Java and C++, and some web development in HTML/PHP/CSS/JavaScript. M. S. in Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology (GPA 4.0). B. S. in Computer Science from University of California, San Diego.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer (Android) @ Thumbtack
Jan 2017 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Current: Android infrastructure engineer; lead engineer for the Android engineering community at Thumbtack.
Prior: Product engineer on the Android Thumbtack Pro app.

- Built numerous new features.
- Architecture support, improvement and standards.
- Build out test infrastructure: Espresso, Robolectric, Roborazzi, coverage tracking, BrowserStack, Firebase Test Lab
- Kotlin, Compose, View System, Coroutines, ReactiveX (RxKotlin, RxJava), ViewModels, Jetpack Navigation, OkHttp, Apollo GraphQL, Room
- Gradle, Jenkins CI Pipeline
- Some Python and PHP
- Company-wide presentations, 4 blog posts, inventor on issued patent

### Senior Software Engineer @ Facebook
Jan 2014 – Jan 2017 | Menlo Park, CA
Android Software Engineer on Facebook's core Android product:
- "On This Day" feature
- Facebook Search on Android
-- Video Search
-- Photo Search
-- News and Trending
- Intern Manager 2015, 2016, 2017

### Senior Software Engineer @ Yahoo
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Carlsbad, CA
Software Engineer on back-end online advertising order and reporting system.
- Javascript, Java, JEE, HTML, Spring, SOAP, Web Services, XML, Hibernate, SQL, MDX.
- Maven, Subversion, Git.
- Scrum, Agile.
- Finalist in 2013 Q4 Hackathon: Android App.

### Staff Software Engineer @ Intuit
Jan 1999 – Jan 2013 | San Diego, CA
* Software Engineer on Electronic Filing Engine for 6 years:
-- Interacted with IRS, state agencies, business partners and customers to develop e-filing system for Income Tax and Payroll Tax.
-- Technologies: Java, JEE, EJBs, JBoss, Servlets, Swing, JSP, Struts, XML, networking, JMS, SQL, Hibernate, Oracle, SOAP, HTML, JavaScript.
-- Technical Lead and Staff Software Engineer on EFE Payroll for 2 years.
-- System serves over 80 million customers per year.
* Technical lead on the Basic Hosting Platform architecture.  Leading team of 3 engineers.  Java, JBoss, JEE, Maven.
* Technical lead and architect on back-end payroll messaging system for 4 years.  Java, JMS, C++, COM/ATL, MTS.
* Designed and developed JEE monitoring system for data center applications.
* Developed distributed session management system.  Java, JMX.
* Developed web-based tax table service.  ASP.
* Helped develop distributed licensing system.  Java.
* Technical writing and presentations.
* Process excellence:  Scrum, Fagan Inspections, TSP/PSP.

### Software Engineer @ Altris Software
Jan 1994 – Jan 1999 | San Diego, CA
Designed and developed web and Win32 document management system.
Technical lead and developer for UNIX distributed data storage system.
UNIX web server administration.
C, C++, UNIX Shell, perl, CGI, HTML, COM, ActiveX.
Technical writing, QA, customer support.

### Developer @ San Diego Supercomputer Center
Jan 1996 – Jan 1996 | San Diego, CA
Developed molecular visualization program with OpenGL/VRML on SGI workstations.  Written in C.


## Education
### Master of Science (M.S.) in Computer Science
Georgia Institute of Technology

### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science
UC San Diego


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/brianterczynski

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Last updated: 2026-04-12