# Tera Staten > Staff Software Engineer at Abrigo Location: Akron, Ohio, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/tera ## Work Experience ### Staff Software Engineer @ Abrigo Jan 2023 – Present Lead contractor teams technical direction for serverless check fraud detection software using dynamo, s3, sqs, sns, lambdas, postgresql. Implemented observability for serverless event driven software using cloud watch and New Relic dashboards. Built and maintained python based report generation for health of the event driven check fraud system. Assisted technical support team in manually setting up production environments for financial institutions and built automation for all product onboarding tasks. Worked on cross team initiative to add multi tenant support to multiple services by adding redis session state caching, distributed locks, and moving signalR hub caching to redis storage. Added specflow integration tests for Web API services and AWS lambda functions. Added UI features by building Vue.js components with .NET APIs, and SQL backend. Added AWS wrappers for use in windows native applications that migrated from on-prem to aws EC2s. Built AWS services using terraform. Clarified project requirements with engineering manager and product manager. Discovered architecture problems and created tasks for serverless backend functionality. Communicated with customers on discovery calls to determine how to build the features they need. Consulted other teams across the department to resolve problems that they were domain experts in. ### Lead, Senior Software Engineer @ Patriot Software, LLC Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 Led a team of 3 engineers and 2 QA to complete features for accounting product using C#, MVC, jQuery, Vue.js and HTML. Built APIs and Consumers to comply with company-wide architecture decisions. I was the go-to domain expert of the accounting product for the engineering department. Architected multiple visions of splitting the accounting monolith and presented to other senior developers for feedback. Designed a project that crossed 4 other team's domains and facilitated meetings with the team leads to discover domain questions around unfamiliar parts of the product to bring back to the product manager. Facilitated scrum ceremonies such as refinement, sprint planning, sprint review with stakeholders, and discovery. Worked with engineering manager to estimate and plan technical projects. Conducted interviews in a panel format around behavioral and technical expertise. Onboarded a mid-level and senior engineer onto the team. Gave peer review feedback to engineers, QA, and product manager. I suggested features to the product manager that could potentially be high return on investment, especially around 3rd party integrations that could save money vs implementing in house. Taught multiple teams about event driven architecture and how it worked in relation to the most popular domains. ### Lead, Software Engineer III @ Patriot Software, LLC Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 Led a team of 4 engineers and 1 QA to implement features for accounting software. Determined feasibility, timeline estimates, and sprint capacity with the help of the engineering manager, product manager and UX designer. Built full-stack SaaS features for accounting product using jQuery, MVC, C# and SQL. Helped migrate from in-house data center to AWS and suggested new AWS technologies for upcoming features. Assisted in migrating data from SQL Server to PostgreSQL, giving support around accounting domain expertise. Completed a cross team project that consisted of daily collaboration with a team that was building API endpoints for my team to consume. Responsible for onboarding and continued training of 4 entry level software engineers throughout this time period. Taught newer developers how to lead smaller projects to help get them promoted from level I to II. ### Software Developer @ Patriot Software, LLC Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 Worked with principal software engineer on designing and implementing ACH infrastructure for payroll direct deposit. It used C#, cron jobs, and an agile collaboration between product owners and compliance. Became a domain expert on the NACHA fixed width file spec. Modernized UI for payroll entry page to a newer version of jQuery and split script files up into modules for future extensibility. Mentored interns by assigning them projects and pair programming. ### Emerging Technologies Intern @ Diebold Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | North Canton, Ohio Created a RESTful email and SMS service using .NET and C# MVC that utilizes JSON for messaging format. Made unit tests for this project as well as a WIX installer for simple installation. ## Education ### Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science The University of Akron Jan 2011 – Jan 2015 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/tera-staten --- Source: https://flows.cv/tera JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/tera/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22