Joseph Terry

Background

About Joseph Terry

Internet software and web developer (full stack) with 17 years' experience across environments from Amazon.com to state government to 6 startups. Extensive experience as senior or lead engineer developing complex, high-traffic, high-availability eCommerce websites. Top-level technical responsibility in multiple companies, including one as co-founder.Passion for building truly user-friendly web and cloud-based applications with well-designed, high-performing, scalable, appropriately flexible architectures. Driven to make peoples' lives easier through good interface design. Secondary passion for nonprofit work, particularly in intercultural exchange. Volunteer or pro bono work for multiple nonprofits. Experience in consensus-building and conflict resolution, including in multicultural and multilingual environments. Proficient in French, Spanish, and German. Familiar with Russian and Arabic. Lived, studied, volunteered, or traveled in more than 40 countries. Specialties: Web application development, web services, API integrations, eCommerce, inventory and order management, warehousing, UI design, taxonomy and product discovery, localization and internationalization, legacy migrations, developer management, mentoring and training, technical project management, promotion of internal change and consensus-building.