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Victor Lawrence

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Senior Software Engineer at API Hotels who modernized a platform serving 47 airlines and built AI-powered applications.

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At API Hotels, I led the evolution of an ASP.NET platform serving 47 airlines and 70,000+ employees. I modernized the application with Angular and Java/Spring Boot, and led technical delivery for a team of five developers.

I also built AI-powered feedback and agentic applications that reduced response preparation time by 80% and hotel-mapping effort by 98%. Earlier, I developed microservices, enterprise platforms, and database systems at KORE Telematics, MEDIT Inc., Kesco Ltd., ICF Ltd., and Makfa.

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Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Senior Software Engineer / Team Lead

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API Hotels

Sep 2016 - Present (10 years 2 months)

Led the architecture and evolution of a scalable ASP.NET platform serving 47 airlines and 70,000+ employees worldwide, processing 450,000 transactions per day at 99.9% availability. Directed a team of 5 developers, established blue/green CI/CD deployments on AWS, and designed AI-powered feedback and agentic applications.

C#.NET ASP.NET Core Angular TypeScript RxJS NG ZORRO Tailwind Java Spring Boot SQL Server PostgreSQL AWS CI CD Blue Green Deployment REST APIs Microservices PWA RAG Vector Search AI Agents Microsoft Semantic Kernel Jira

Senior Software Engineer

KORE Telematics

Sep 2013 - Sep 2016 (3 years)

Engineered C# microservices for SIM activation and deactivation workflows, processing 200,000 requests per month. Established automated CI/CD pipelines using Octopus Deploy, increasing deployment frequency by 50%.

C#Microservices CI CD Octopus Deploy SQL Web Development

Senior Software Engineer

MEDIT Inc.

Mar 2012 - Sep 2013 (1 year 6 months)

Designed a web-based document management platform that automated workflows, reducing processing time by 50%. Partnered with customer support and engineering teams to translate operational workflows into repair-tracking solutions.

Web Development Workflow Automation Requirements Analysis

Senior Software Engineer

Kesco Ltd.

Jun 2005 - Jun 2010 (5 years)

Designed a telephone billing system integrated with hotel management software and deployed across four IBIS hotels, processing 2,000,000 billing records per month. Designed and delivered a web-based inventory management platform for Kesco Holding and the IBIS hotel chain, improving inventory accuracy by 20%.

Billing Systems Web Development Inventory Management SQL

Software Engineer

ICF Ltd.

Jan 2005 - Jun 2005 (5 months)

Enhanced financial management and accounting platforms to support client-specific business processes, reducing manual processing by 50%. Led requirements analysis and legacy data migrations for 3 clients, migrating 600,000 records into the financial management platform.

Financial Systems Data Migration Requirements Analysis

Software Engineer / Team Lead

Makfa

Aug 2000 - Dec 2004 (4 years 4 months)

Led development of enterprise applications on the 1C: Enterprise ERP platform for 100 users. Designed a unified business system integrating Accounting, Planning & Budgeting, Production, and Warehouse operations.

1C:Enterprise ERP Business Systems Team Leadership

AI-Powered Stock Research and Discovery Platform

Personal Project

Built a stock research web application using C# and ASP.NET Core, integrating AI-generated stock scorecards with similarity-based stock discovery. Integrated Microsoft Semantic Kernel to orchestrate requests to a Hermes Agent that generates structured stock scorecards.

C#ASP.NET Core Microsoft Semantic Kernel PostgreSQL Vector Search AI