Software Engineer .Net Core

TERRY J. HARDIN

Fanwood, NJ ***** 862-***-**** *****@***********.*** https://linkedin/in/terryhardin Summary

Dynamic Solution Architect and Senior Development Leader who consistently operates at the Vice President level in both Fortune 100 enterprises and startups. Architecting and scaling cloud-native, distributed, and micro- services systems that drove enterprise growth and reliability is my expertise. Leading, managing, and mentoring global teams of 30+ engineers, and delivering a high-availability, fault-tolerant solution that is also optimized for performance is a skill I possess readily. Achieving 5000%+ performance gains in the area of enterprise data ingestion pipelines, as well as resolving serious scalability challenges for large-scale customers. I am also well- versed in DDD, OOD, TDD, BDD, and possess deep technical knowledge in AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, .NET Core, Java, Python, as well as modern-day CI/CD pipelines and Docker. I am noted for being successful in strategic road-mapping, tactical governance, and hands-on delivery of mission-critical enterprise platforms. Key Achievements

• Led 30+ global engineers, driving the adoption of micro-services, cloud-native architecture, and Kubernetes, improving delivery speed by 35%

• Optimized data ingestion pipelines and micro-services (Java, C#, Python, .NET Core, SQL/MongoDB), achieving 5,000% faster imports

• Established CI/CD pipelines through GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Checkmarx, and SonarQube, and improved deployment validation by 70%

• Developed full-stack, high-performance solutions with .NET Core, Java, Python, React/Angular, Node.js, and REST/SOAP APIs, while achieving 99.9% uptime

• Defined and enforced NFRs, BDD/TDD testing, and monitoring dashboards (Splunk, Cloud Watch) for latency, reliability, and SLA compliance

Core Competencies

• Enterprise Architecture

• Distributed Systems

• Cloud Platforms

• Micro-services Architecture

• API Integration

• Disaster Recovery

• Performance Tuning

• Programming Languages

• Frontend Development

• Test Automation

• Container Orchestration

• Cloud-Native Development

• SDLC Governance

• Agile Methodologies

• Event-Driven Systems

• CI/CD Automation

• Security Architecture

• Stakeholder Management

• Technology innovation

• Data Engineering

• Team Leadership

Career Experience

Solution Architect / Senior Developer 09/2023 to 03/2025 FISERV INC Berkeley Heights, NJ

• Directed enterprise-wide automation strategy, developing and implementing deployment scripts that streamlined SDLC workflows, reduced manual effort by 75%, eliminated release errors, and enabled seamless automated rollbacks and deployments across mission-critical systems.

• Architected and led security and performance optimization initiatives, enhancing scalability, throughput, and memory utilization; collaborated with performance engineering to establish robust load and stress testing protocols that improved system resilience under peak demand by 40%.

• Championed enterprise NFR standards, authoring and maintaining documentation for latency, reliability, and system availability metrics; successfully increased system uptime to 99.98% while meeting stringent compliance and regulatory requirements.

• Oversaw cross-functional adoption of modern technologies and tools including .NET Core (REST API), SQL Server, Kafka, Power-Shell, Python, Selenium, SonarQube, and Git Lab pipelines, driving continuous performance monitoring and implementing proactive alerting dashboards that reduced critical issue detection time more than 60%

• Mentored cross-functional engineering teams on DevOps, automation, and performance best practices, fostering a culture of continuous learning and collaboration that accelerated onboarding and improved delivery quality across all environments.

• Mentored junior developers and QA engineers on automation frameworks, CI/CD workflows, and performance diagnostics, cultivating cross-team expertise and improving overall delivery efficiency. Solution Architect / Lead Developer 08/2021 to 05/2023 VERTEX INC King of Prussia, PA

• Directed and guided a worldwide team of 30+ engineers by leading the initiative on transitioning to scalable micro-services patterns, fault-tolerant designs, and horizontal scaling in Kubernetes (EKS), which enhanced reliability and improved the speed to delivery of features by 35%.

• Worked with performance engineering teams to design and implement load generation frameworks using Python and Selenium, while leveraging logging and telemetry metrics and custom logging for performance tuning, which resulted in a 45% reduction in latency when under peak load.

• Architected and delivered new enterprise functionality to facilitate the seamless import of large-scale data file types, providing a Java-based backend that increased platform capacity by 50%, improving business intelligence and analytics capabilities.

• Architected and implemented GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines integrating Checkmarx, SonarQube, and performance regression testing, to provide 70% faster code validation cycles while improving security black and white posture and good code quality compliance (i.e. solid code with poor compliance).

• Led cloud automation initiatives leveraging Terraform and Kubernetes to provision, scale, and optimize AWS infrastructure, reducing manual configuration by 80% and ensuring high-availability deployments across global environments.

Consultant: Personalized Investing Web 11/2020 to 06/2021 CHARLES SCHWAB New York, NY

• Managed 30+ global engineers while mentoring on micro-services, Kubernetes (EKS), and scalable, fault- tolerant design, improving delivery speed by 35%.

• Led hardening of agriculture Java micro-services post-acquisition, developing JVM tuning while reducing cold-start periods, improving response rates by 40%.

• Developed CI/CD and automated pipelines with GitHub Actions, Checkmarx, SonarQube, and regression tests to cut validation cycles by 70%.

• Created a Python-based load testing tool for REST APIs on AWS using Splunk and Cloud Watch to decrease performance risk by 35%, and improve uptime to 99.9%. Vice President / Programmer: Electronic Trading Risk 11/2015 to 05/2020 BANK OF AMERICA Jersey City, NJ

• Led performance turning efforts on data ingestion pipelines, importing thousands of Excel files into SQL Server, reducing transformation time by over 90%.

• Defined and validated NFRs for data consistency, latency, and accuracy using Python-based test harnesses, ensuring SLA compliance, as well as using Python for the complete API with Django.

• Utilized Jenkins and Ansible for automating builds and deployments in the Data Center.

• Built automated test suites (unit, functional, regression, performance) with Python, Selenium, and Behave, optimizing batch ETL reliability.

• The Front End was set up on Ember.js and we moved to Angular for more functionality. Consultant: Azure Cloud Solutions Architect 06/2014 to 08/2015 MICROSOFT CORPORATION Redmond, WA

• Starting with a ‘local machine’ setup POC, I lifted it into Azure and made the POC into a fully functional cloud product.

• Wrote the code along with the performance test framework in C# components for services deployed in Azure QA environments, simulating concurrency and validating SLA adherence for latency.

• Defined resource profiling benchmarks using Azure CloudWatch and custom scripts to validate behavior under dynamic loads, including those with error.

• Collaborated with QA leads to establishing a monitoring and alerting protocol based on telemetry and NFRs from CloudWatch and application logging.

• The front end was JavaScript, CSS, and JQuery,

Education

Bachelor's Degree: Computer Science / e Business

University of Phoenix Arizona, United States

GPA: 3.93

Featured Technology Stack

C#, Python, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, SQL, X Path, XSL(T), Regular Expressions, .NET Core, RESTful Web API s, SOAP, .NET Framework, Entity Framework, Django, React, Angular, NUnit/XUnit, Spec Flow/Behave (Cucumber), jQuery, Bootstrap, Jasmine, Node.js, NPM, Spring & Boot, OpenAPI, Swagger, SQL Server, Azure SQL, AWS RDS

(MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server), MongoDB, Redis, Oracle, Visual Studio, VS Code, Eclipse, PyCharm, IntelliJ IDEA, Git (GitHub, GitLab and Bitbucket), SVN, Jira, Confluence, Align, MS Office (Excel, VBA, Access, Word, PowerPoint), Draw.io, MS Teams, Power-shell, GitHub Actions, Docker, ArgoCD, Kubernetes, Terraform, Artifactory, Jenkins, Ansible, Checkmate, SonarQube, IAM

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