Victor J Thomas

What I'm looking for

I’m looking to own systems end-to-end and make architecture decisions that balance business constraints with technical feasibility. I want to build production SaaS and AI developer tools, ship fast in startup-style teams, and continuously raise quality through mentorship and clean engineering practices.

I’m a software engineer with 4+ years building production SaaS systems, mobile applications, and AI-powered developer tools. I own systems end-to-end—from database schema to deployed infrastructure—and make architecture decisions aligned with business constraints. In startup environments, I ship independently while still raising the bar for engineering quality.

Most recently, I architected and led development of a large-scale academic evaluation platform for INFOTEP, supporting 2,000+ users with up to 500 concurrent sessions. I designed a multi-step nested data transformation pipeline across 8+ institutional microservices, including conditional validation logic and high-stakes financial submission processing. I also built asynchronous task pipelines across a distributed microservice architecture with strict consistency requirements.

I also served as Lead Developer / Founding Engineer, designing and building an entire mobile learning stack from scratch. I integrated AWS Cognito, Amplify, S3, and Lambda, improved performance by reducing crash rate and screen load time, and mentored junior contributors on component architecture and engineering tradeoffs. I’m currently building Reachly (AI content SaaS) and Cortex (a production-grade RAG pipeline) and I’m energized by end-to-end ownership, pragmatic tradeoffs, and shipping systems that hold up in real usage.