Lino Thomas

Led backend initiatives for a high-traffic HealthTech platform handling 1M+ daily requests. Improved API response times by ~30% and optimized microservices architecture to sustain 99.99% uptime. Automated CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and Jenkins, reducing deployment time by ~40% and increasing release velocity. Shipped user-facing real-time notification and payment features, improving engagement by ~35% and growing subscriptions. Mentored cross-functional agile teams through code reviews and coding standards, helping reduce bug rates while accelerating delivery.

Migrated legacy REST endpoints to GraphQL and WebSockets for a healthcare communication platform, improving latency and reducing payload sizes. Owned multi-cloud infrastructure across AWS and GCP (ECS, Lambda, SQS, SNS, RDS, ElastiCache), maintaining high availability while cutting cloud costs by ~30%. Hardened public APIs with OAuth 2.0 and JWT, reducing production security incidents. Improved performance via database query refactoring and Redis caching strategies. Built CI/CD and containerized deployments with Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm; established Jest unit testing for backend services.

Built the company MVP from scratch and bootstrapped the engineering team. Designed and developed GraphQL APIs powering React web and React Native mobile apps. Set up and managed AWS infrastructure including EKS, EC2, Lambda, App Runner, and RDS, ensuring scalability and high availability. Created CI/CD pipelines across environments using CircleCI and AWS CodeBuild; owned deployment and maintenance for web and mobile apps.