Terence Schumacher
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Career

Recent roles building platform infrastructure, observability, and release engineering at scale.

  1. Senior Site Reliability Engineer, FDE Data Platform

    Invisible Technologies

    • Designed a platform-wide maturity audit across 28 microservices using GitHub Actions and DORA-style scoring, surfacing 14 critical reliability and release gaps.
    • Built a Temporal-orchestrated observability platform in Kotlin with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and Grafana, instrumenting 100% of critical AI workflow paths for distributed tracing.
    • Delivered a configurable AI pipeline scaffold in Kotlin with 6 plug-and-play components, taking end-to-end ownership across 3 concurrent infrastructure initiatives.

  2. Senior Software Engineer, Platform & Infrastructure

    Tableau Software (Salesforce)

    • Reduced release lead time by 79% by redesigning CI/CD pipelines in TeamCity and GitLab CI with automated branching, deployment gates, and telemetry-gated canary rollouts.
    • Automated macOS code-signing and notarization end-to-end, eliminating ~720 hours of annual manual effort (360x improvement) via custom Python and Kotlin tooling.
    • Led migration of the legacy CMake/Ninja desktop build to Bazel for Apple Silicon, improving production defect detection by 25% with ASAN, TSAN, and UBSAN in CI.
    • Mentored 4+ engineers on CI/CD and release engineering; ran monthly onboarding sessions for 20+ new hires on internal pipeline architecture.

  3. Software Engineer, Server Build & Platform Infrastructure

    Tableau Software (Salesforce)

    • Built release branching automation in Kotlin/Gradle integrated with GitLab API, reducing release engineering cycle time by 35% and eliminating manual multi-environment coordination errors.
    • Transitioned developer tooling to a multi-project Bazel environment, reducing incremental build times by up to 75% across a monolith serving hundreds of engineers.
    • Shipped custom Gradle plugins and Artifactory integration used by 200+ engineers; served as primary SME for Kotlin/Gradle build-system incident response.

Education

  • University of Washington — Bachelor of Science in Computer Science & Software Engineering