Thomas Walker Email & Phone Number

Frederick, Md, Us

Baltimore, Maryland, Us

Developed and maintained a back-end admin site using Django and Django Rest Framework, enabling non-technical team members to update data through custom functions and services.Built and optimized a full-text search function with PostgreSQL, configuring fields, weights, and vectors for accurate, efficient search results.Designed and implemented data models aligned with business goals, supporting both current functionality and future scalability.Integrated external APIs to extend application functionality and enhance user experience.Developed a secure file repository for internal users to share documents with authentication.Developed RESTFUL apis and microservices using Micronaut for custom authentication and various request to AzureTesting, Code Quality & Best PracticesEstablished a comprehensive testing strategy for the backend, setting clear goals for code coverage and critical features.Utilized various testing frameworks for various stacks to ensure proper code coverage.Implemented code quality standards using Ruff, selecting relevant rules, and updating the code-base to ensure compliance and maintainability.AWS & Cloud ManagementManaged AWS services, handling database upgrades, security enhancements, and CloudFormation stack repairs.Developed AWS Lambda functions for serverless architectures and implemented updates to CloudFormation templates.Built and maintained applications in AWS utilizing S3, Lambda, RDS, API Gateway, EC2, and various other services.Established API Gateways in Azure establishing releases for CI/CD and experimental releases.Frontend Development with Vue & ReactLed component-driven development in Vue and React, creating a cohesive, user-friendly frontend that aligns with Figma design specifications.Developed CSS templates for dynamic styling based on browser properties, ensuring consistent and responsive layouts.

Chevy Chase, Md, Us

Leverage the JIRA API using Python to create a dashboard in Power BI to track various Scrum and Kanban Metrics.Updated database schema for GEICO's mobile application using sql scripts and SSIS pacakges.Updated both front and back end of Geicos claims application using a variety of languages: REACT, Javascript, C#, CSS, and Bootstrap.

Chevy Chase, Md, Us

Buildmaster for GEICO’s internet and mobile application. Manage builds, code merges, deployments, triage environment issues, and design of the merging strategy. Worked on conversion of our current branching strategy and deployments to CI/CD. Redesigned tools and services used by our Mobile application to better fit a CI/CD infrastructure.

Chevy Chase, Md, Us

Develop manual and automated testing solutions for GEICO's claim applications. Using Microsoft Visual Studio's Webtest suite I would automate test cases using plugins I developed to read API responses and send appropriate responses to create policies, create claims, update customer information, and update claim information. Test suite would simulate the entire customer experience on a from beginning to end.I also helped develop a tool to automatically set up our test files. When Visual Studio Webtest records information it records it as is. I co-developed a tool that would edit the files to update dynamic fields to variables that work side by side with the plugins to create purely unique cases each time it was ran.Wrote various plugins and applications to develop a testing framework for geico using Visual Studio Webtest and C#.

Chevy Chase, Md, Us

Support role for GEICO's Actuarial department. Created various tools and scripts to automate the departments processes. Built tools to automate price rating from database factors.Repair and refactored databases that were inaccurate.Created various other tools using Python, SQL Server, SAS, and Visual Basic. Used scripting languages to automate and streamline processes.

Chevy Chase, Md, Us