James Thomason, Jr

Building a multi-tenant work coordination platform where humans and autonomous agents securely execute shared workflows.

• Architected a multi-tenant SaaS platform spanning 7 services and 250+ REST endpoints behind a NestJS gateway using shared API contracts in an Nx monorepo.
• Designed shared human/agent workflows with common authorization, approval, leasing, and artifact requirements, enabling human-in-the-loop automation.
• Implemented multi-tenant authentication using JWT, OIDC, CASL, PostgreSQL RLS, service authentication, and enterprise SSO.
• Built AWS infrastructure with Kubernetes, OpenTofu, GitHub Actions, Docker, and OpenTelemetry.
• Delivered a Next.js web app, CLI, and MCP server over a shared public API.
• Established a specification-first AI engineering workflow spanning 34 design specs, 73 implementation plans, 248 merged PRs, and 2,500+ automated tests while maintaining open-source agent tooling.

Built AI workflow platforms, experimentation systems, cloud infrastructure, and developer tooling supporting autonomous and data-driven engineering workflows.

• Built an AWS Bedrock workflow platform enabling 100+ autonomous workflows with 600+ executions through a visual DAG editor.
• Developed features for an experimentation platform supporting 1,500+ production experiments.
• Built CLI tools, MCP servers, and developer workflows for local development, testing, and deployment.
• Built cloud infrastructure using AWS CDK.
• Automated CI/CD workflows for internal platforms.

Improved reliability and developer workflows for customer experience automation systems.

• Built a command-line data seeding tool that made production issues easier to reproduce in local development environments.

Led cloud engineering enablement and migration of enterprise security gates and CI/CD workflows from Bitbucket and Bamboo to GitHub.

• Maintained enterprise CI/CD pipelines during the migration from Bitbucket and Bamboo to GitHub, minimizing disruption for development teams.
• Helped establish a chapter-based engineering organization focused on technical mentorship, shared practices, and cross-team knowledge transfer.
• Mentored engineers through regular coaching, technical guidance, and career development conversations.
• Fostered continuous learning through discussions on engineering best practices, platform trends, and emerging technologies.

Built deployment orchestration, infrastructure automation, and developer tooling for enterprise software delivery.

• Built and maintained infrastructure using Terraform and Terragrunt to support enterprise deployment workflows.
• Developed custom deployment targets and orchestration capabilities for CI/CD tooling to support varied application requirements.
• Built and maintained a shared repository of developer tools and automation scripts to improve engineering productivity and standardize workflows.
• Evaluated enterprise tooling through RFCs and architecture reviews, influencing build-versus-buy decisions for internal developer platforms.
• Mentored junior engineers on PHP, object-oriented design, agile development, and pair programming.

Modernized customer-facing and internal service architecture across web, API, and order-processing systems.

• Designed and implemented a new API architecture to modernize internal services and improve separation between application components.
• Developed a shared library that enabled incremental migration from a monolithic architecture to microservices.

Built internal compliance software and reusable frontend components for enterprise applications.

• Developed reusable frontend libraries for data grids, state history, and loading experiences that became widely adopted across internal applications.

Built mortgage servicing software while improving local development consistency and onboarding.

• Created and maintained a reproducible Vagrant-based development environment that standardized local setup and streamlined onboarding.