Doncy Thomas

Lead the technical and managerial delivery of the Development and QA activities of the digital marketing and advertising web portfolio. Manage and lead the daily cadence of projects with a size of 20 members. Successfully managed multiple concurrent projects with budgets of over $5 million USD each. Architected and implemented solutions that improved application response times by 86%. Strategized the design of new features and migration of on-premise features to AWS cloud. Designed a native API and queuing platform for data downloads. Implemented Agile Scrum principles and streamlined project process workflows using JIRA automations.

Responsible for the architecture, development and management of 3 different projects catering to ERP needs. Architected and developed the organization’s in-house ERP system and REST API interfaces, saving an annual USD 370k-400k. Responsible for cradle-to-grave engineering from requirements gathering to release. Designed and developed a configurable and scalable SQL DB. Configured and built CICD pipelines using TFS, reducing manual effort by 93%.

Owned the Backend architecture and developed a feature rich video based collaborating application. Designed, modelled, and developed the Backend database. Designed Technical Design documents. Developed complex stored procedures with CTEs and SQL Xml/XPath. Architected and developed the Error Handling framework for the SQL back-end module. Developed RESTful interaction APIs in C#.

Led production support and development teams for multiple Web and desktop applications for major UK insurance and banking clients. Coordinated directly with Business stakeholders and 3rd party technical teams. Automated key reports using VBScript, SQL DTS (SSIS), and VBA, reducing manual effort by 84%. Devised strategy for decommissioning legacy applications. Authored release processes and protocols.