# Tera Andrianoff

> Software Engineer, Usability Advocate, Improviser. Python | TypeScript | Java | C++ | HTML | CSS | SQL

Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/teraandrianoff

Creative and adaptable Full Stack Software Engineer focused on creating sublime user experience and maintainable, performant front end development. Adept in analyzing problems, gathering user requirements, and going from design to implementation of a final product, prototype, or fix. Accustomed to fast-paced, multidisciplinary teams and skilled in the communication and attention to detail that makes them work. Known for communicating and collaborating with users and non-technical team members and the ability to transform that into design and product insights to achieve consistent results.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Aware, Inc.
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023
- Software development for biometrics products.
- Reduced troubleshooting time for developers by implementing monitoring tools in Python.
- Designed workflows for new search features opening sales opportunities.
- Developing Java web services to extend interoperability with external systems.
- Improved new hire onboarding process and trained interns on build process.
- Scoping tasks for development of updated UI for an existing product.
- Identified opportunities for collaboration with other internal teams.
- Documenting legacy code and existing systems to increase team understanding and capture institutional knowledge.
- Investigating codeless single sign on integration.
- Managed availability of API routes through Istio.
- Utilized Kiali and python analytic scripts to collect data on product reliability.
- Measured system performance using JMeter.
- Advanced understanding of performance testing for cloud systems.
- Improved personal workflow and development practices using batch scripting.
- Mentored junior developers.
- Worked with Spring boot, JPA, Hibernate, Keycloak, AWS, Grafana, Vue 3, Webpack, Bootstrap, node.js, Kubernetes, maven, Apache Tomcat, Apache Storm, BPEL, perl, jquery, SAML, SOAP, SASS.

### Solutions Engineer @ Jobcase, Inc.
Jan 2016 – Jan 2020 | Cambridge, MA
- Analyzed user requirements, communicated with collaborators, designed, and implemented a permissions system for an essential business tool to ensure security of essential operations.
- Rapidly planned, prioritized, and implemented critical features for clients ensuring continued and expanded contracts and revenue.
- Attended to details of coordinating and communicating use cases and product requirements necessary to improve usability and automation of internal software and provide usable, productivity enhancing tools.
- Investigated and analyzed performance of existing systems to diagnose inefficiencies and performance problems, thus improving the customer success team's capacity.
- Researched and evaluated ETL tools and software options for future use to inform decisions around evolving automation needs.
- Maintained legacy business systems providing critical revenue streams to ensure company cash flow.
- Implemented tools and improvements across JavaScript, AngularJS, NodeJS, Java, Python, Selenium, SQL, and the use of external client APIs.

### Software Engineer @ Amazing Charts
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Boston, MA
- Quickly learned problem solving approaches to solve HTML and CSS issues independently and collaborated with other team members, as needed, in order to fully contribute quickly.
- Implemented full stack features on a large-scale cloud-based medical chart application to drive product growth, development, and salability.
- Implemented new features in C#, .NET, AngularJS, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

### Software Engineer @ Demiurge Studios
Jan 2012 – Jan 2014
- Innovated improvements to established approaches to implement and create a system still used today for features in the Marvel Puzzle Quest game on iOS, Android, and PC.
- Implemented gameplay systems and UI additions and improvements in C++ and ActionScript.
- Wrote documentation on the game's ability system and character creation process, allowing for easier onboarding of new designers and engineers.
- Attended to details of new designs to provide technical and mechanical feedback on design feasibility.
- Analyzed and determined game requirements through communication and collaboration with designers to ensure timely feature delivery under tight deadlines.

### Research Programmer @ Carnegie Mellon University
Jan 2009 – Jan 2010 | Pittsburgh, PA
- Researched crowd sourcing technology to develop applications to improve the accessibility of public transportation for disabled people.
- Implemented Java and PostgreSQL backend for Tiramisu Bus schedule and location app to allow for field testing and deployment.
- Conducted and analyzed think-aloud tests of a problem reporting form paper prototype to get early insights into design of a proposed software system.
- Developed application data schema based on Google Transit Feed System to allow back-end experimentation.

### IT Intern @ JAARS, Inc.
Jan 2007 – Jan 2007
- Interned working on software development for Translation Editor to gain experience and insight.


## Education
### MHCI in Human-Computer Interaction
Carnegie Mellon University

### B.S. in Computer Science, Japanese
Carnegie Mellon University


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-31