Hi, I’m Winston Dougan, a Lead .NET Engineer with 10+ years of experience designing and delivering scalable, full-stack enterprise systems across healthcare, financial services, and SaaS domains. I specialize in C#, .NET Core, ASP.NET Core, microservices, and Azure-based distributed architectures, with a track record of improving performance and reliability. I enjoy collaborating with product, compliance, and cross-functional teams to translate complex requirements into maintainable solutions, mentor engineers, and uphold secure coding practices in regulated environments.

Winston Dougan

Hi, I’m Winston Dougan, a Lead .NET Engineer with 10+ years of experience designing and delivering scalable, full-stack enterprise systems across healthcare, financial services, and SaaS domains. I specialize in C#, .NET Core, ASP.NET Core, microservices, and Azure-based distributed architectures, with a track record of improving performance and reliability. I enjoy collaborating with product, compliance, and cross-functional teams to translate complex requirements into maintainable solutions, mentor engineers, and uphold secure coding practices in regulated environments.

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Hi, I’m Winston Dougan, a Lead .NET Engineer with 10+ years of experience designing and delivering scalable, full-stack enterprise systems across healthcare, financial services, and SaaS domains. I specialize in C#, .NET Core, ASP.NET Core, microservices, and Azure-based distributed architectures, with a track record of improving performance and reliability.

I enjoy collaborating with product, compliance, and cross-functional teams to translate complex requirements into maintainable solutions, mentor engineers, and uphold secure coding practices in regulated environments.

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Language

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Work Experience

Lead .NET Developer at Pros
April 1, 2020 - Present
Designed distributed microservices-based architecture using C#, .NET Core, ASP.NET Core, Azure Functions, and Service Bus to support enterprise-scale healthcare workloads, improving scalability and reducing service latency. Led decomposition of legacy monolithic systems into independently deployable .NET microservices, improving deployment frequency and cross-team autonomy. Optimized SQL Server data models and indexing, resulting in a 35% improvement in query performance. Built Angular frontend applications and secured RESTful APIs. Implemented CI/CD pipelines with Azure DevOps, Docker, and Kubernetes, reducing release cycles by 50%. Collaborated with product, compliance, and engineering teams to meet healthcare security requirements and guided API design standards and secure coding practices.
Senior .NET Developer at Microsoft
May 1, 2017 - March 31, 2020
Developed high-scale financial systems using C#, .NET Core, ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET Core, Angular, React, and SQL Server; led cloud migration efforts to Azure and AWS; built full-stack distributed applications enabling real-time reporting and analytics; optimized SQL Server architectures and queries to reduce latency by ~35% for high-volume workloads; implemented automated testing (xUnit, MSTest) and CI/CD pipelines; collaborated with stakeholders to align with regulatory requirements.
Backend .NET Developer at Netscape
June 1, 2015 - April 30, 2017
Developed backend healthcare systems using C#, ASP.NET MVC, Web API, and SQL Server; built RESTful APIs for secure integrations; optimized queries and database structures; contributed to early AWS cloud adoption; implemented unit testing and QA practices; collaborated with stakeholders to ensure security and regulatory compliance.

Education

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science at Stratford University, Fairfax VA
January 1, 2013 - January 1, 2017

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Industry Experience

Healthcare, Software & Internet, Financial Services, Professional Services, Other