Terry Poon

Chief Technology Officer at Twin

San Mateo, California, United States

About Terry Poon

Terry Poon is Chief Technology Officer at Twin. Location: San Mateo, California, United States.

Hands-on engineering executive with extensive experience in high scalability, high-traffic SaaS systems, and global Cloud DevOps. - CTO at Twin Health, combining IoT Sensors, Machine Learning, and Medical Science to improve metabolic health - Early employee and key architect of Jasper’s IoT Cloud platform; joined when Jasper was a stealth-mode startup and helped grow platform from 0 to 100MM+ active devices (paid subscribers) globally. Jasper was acquired by Cisco Systems for $1.4B in 2016. - Architected a high-scale, near-realtime Complex Event Processing system that analyzes 2+ billion network and device events per day (~30,000/second peak), infers device behaviors, and triggers actions for analytics, diagnostics, cost optimization, anomaly detection, etc. with <1 second average latency. - Key technologies: Java (Spring Boot, Scala, Hibernate, Eureka), Golang, Python, Nginx, ElasticSearch, SQL/NoSQL databases (Oracle, Redis Cluster), Message Queues (RabbitMQ, Kafka, Kestrel), Hadoop (Hive, Spark), Web UI (Javascript), Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform

Skills

  • Distributed Systems
  • Cloud Computing
  • Scalability

Additional experience

  • Vice President of Engineering

    Jasper

    July 2014 – August 2018

Education

  • M.Eng., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology