Hi there! I’m Luis Thomas, a Senior Full Stack Engineer with 12+ years of experience designing and delivering scalable web, cloud, and AI-powered applications. I’m passionate about turning complex problems into robust, production-grade systems and collaborating across product, design, and data teams to ship value fast. I’m especially focused on performance optimization, hallucination mitigation, evaluation frameworks, automated testing, and secure, role-based architectures. I enjoy mentoring engineers, driving CI/CD pipelines, and building AI-enabled platforms that scale with the business and customer needs.

Luis Thomas

Hi there! I’m Luis Thomas, a Senior Full Stack Engineer with 12+ years of experience designing and delivering scalable web, cloud, and AI-powered applications. I’m passionate about turning complex problems into robust, production-grade systems and collaborating across product, design, and data teams to ship value fast. I’m especially focused on performance optimization, hallucination mitigation, evaluation frameworks, automated testing, and secure, role-based architectures. I enjoy mentoring engineers, driving CI/CD pipelines, and building AI-enabled platforms that scale with the business and customer needs.

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Hi there! I’m Luis Thomas, a Senior Full Stack Engineer with 12+ years of experience designing and delivering scalable web, cloud, and AI-powered applications. I’m passionate about turning complex problems into robust, production-grade systems and collaborating across product, design, and data teams to ship value fast.

I’m especially focused on performance optimization, hallucination mitigation, evaluation frameworks, automated testing, and secure, role-based architectures. I enjoy mentoring engineers, driving CI/CD pipelines, and building AI-enabled platforms that scale with the business and customer needs.

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Language

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Work Experience

Senior Full Stack Engineer at AZUMO
January 1, 2023 - January 1, 2026
Designed and built production-grade AI-first platforms enabling consumer businesses to operationalize artificial intelligence across products and executive workflows. Implemented modular LLM evaluation and security features, with RA G pipelines, vector embeddings (Pinecone), and multi-model OpenAI/Gemini integrations; built secure chat with file ingestion and contextual retrieval. Led full-stack development using React, Next.js, Vue, and TypeScript (frontend) and Node.js, Python, PostgreSQL, Prisma (backend), deployed on AWS with Docker and GitHub Actions CI/CD.
Senior Full Stack Engineer at AZUMO
September 1, 2019 - December 1, 2022
Architected enterprise RA G architecture indexing 2M+ documents with vector embeddings, semantic retrieval, and role-based knowledge segmentation. Built document ingestion pipelines (PDFs, spreadsheets, API imports) with automated metadata tagging. Developed event-driven backend systems handling high-frequency transactional data using Node.js, Python, PostgreSQL, and Redis. Implemented real-time dashboards and performance-optimized frontend with React/Next.js/TypeScript; reduced API latency via query optimization and Docker-based CI/CD automation.
Full Stack Engineer at Zazz
September 1, 2016 - June 1, 2019
Developed full-stack features using React, TypeScript, Node.js and Express; integrated third-party APIs for payments and financial data aggregation. Built RESTful backend services and middleware for orchestration, reporting workflows, and scheduled background jobs. Optimized database performance with PostgreSQL and Redis caching; improved UI responsiveness across high-traffic endpoints. Collaborated with product and design teams to enhance UX and frontend performance.
Software Engineer Intern
July 1, 2014 - July 1, 2016
Developed responsive UI components using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Built and maintained REST APIs with Node.js and Express; integrated with MySQL databases. Implemented data filtering, sorting, and UI enhancements to improve usability.

Education

Master of Computer Science at Arizona State University
January 11, 2030 - January 1, 2013

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Software & Internet, Professional Services