Terry Ohno

Highly skilled Full-Stack engineer with 8 years of experience in AWS cloud solutions and leading cutting-edge projects with strong hands-on experience.  Recognized for delivering scalable, production-grade platforms utilizing microservices architectures, serverless, and event-driven designs.
 

Senior Full-Stack Developer
Topflight | Irvine, CA Feb 2021 – Feb 2024

Spearheaded development of significant greenfield projects and migrations leveraging cutting-edge technologies including React/Typescript, Angular, Node/Express, Python/Django, GraphQL, Serverless Computing, and various AWS services.

• Led and architected a scalable IoT GPS tracking platform as a cofounder to enable a real-time vehicle monitoring and controls system for a startup from scratch supporting secured data streaming over 250K daily location updates.
• Successfully supported over 5X concurrent virtual therapy sessions for a healthcare app per month by refactoring the critical real-time chat module from an on-premise system to an auto-scaling microservice architecture to support Medicaid health plans leveraging AWS Lambda, EC2, EKS, Kubernetes, and Docker to deliver a scalable and efficient solution based on real-time usage and monitoring health check metrics through CloudWatch and DataDog.
• Improved Next.js/Typescript app page load performance by 18% average improvement in Time to Interactive by implementing asynchronous preloading, lazy-loading, image optimization, and code-splitting techniques.
  Jenkins CI/CD pipelines for automated GIT checkout, linting, formatting, testing, deploying to the dev/staging/production environment, and sending notifications to Slack and Email.
• Managed and mentored 5 junior engineers through dedicated code coaching and review sessions, resulting in a significant 20% improvement in both quality and productivity and an 80% reduction in individual defect rates.
   

Full-Stack Developer
AutoZone | Memphis, TN Jun 2018 – Nov 2020

Successfully launched a high-performance e-commerce platform serving 1.5M+ unique visitors monthly and updated B2C and B2B internal apps for delivering and ordering auto parts and accessories, catering to smaller businesses.

• Processed over 1M requests daily with sub-100ms latency, as measured in DataDog, by leveraging Python/Django, PHP/Laravel, Java/Spring-boot, Node.js, API Gateway, and Lambda for high-performance REST/GraphQL APIs.
• Architected and secured API-first backend infrastructure integrating 1,000+ supplier partners into a unified platform for inventory management and product data syndication using OAuth and JWT tokens for API access control.
• Minimized refresh times to an optimal 2 seconds from 5-11 seconds previously which increases user experience through the implementation of JavaScript, Typescript, Next.js SSR, and Fast Refresh.
• Conducted in-depth code reviews of over 100 pull requests annually providing constructive feedback that empowered less experienced peers to independently produce higher quality, more maintainable code.
   

Front-End Developer
AutoZone | Memphis, TN Sep 2017 – Jun 2018

• Delivered intuitive interfaces with a 4.6/5 rating (based on 60k reviews) in app stores. Successfully migrated old native apps (Android and iOS) into a brand-new modular React Native application into pixel-perfect.
• Collaborated with designers, product owners, and 7+ developers in a cross-functional team to identify and implement new features and enhancements following Agile/Scrum.
   

Bachelor of Science | Dallas, TX University of Texas at Dallas | 2017

• Computer Science