Tom Boban

Senior full-stack developer with 6+ years of experience building and shipping production software across retail, healthcare and enterprise. Leads features end to end on web and mobile, from architecture and API design through testing, release and production support, and mentors’ developers through hands-on code review. Strong in React, React Native, Next.js, TypeScript and Node.js on Azure, AWS and Firebase, with a track record of multi-brand platforms, enterprise integrations and on-time app store launches.

Senior Application Developer at Sobeys Inc. (2025-08 – Present)

Multi-banner digital experience platform (DXP): Sobeys, Safeway, IGA, IGA West, Foodland and FreshCo

• Led development, testing and launch of NHL Pick’em, a season-long Scene+ prediction contest live across Sobeys, Safeway and IGA Quebec (bilingual), built on Next.js, TypeScript, Azure and SQL Server.
• Took the IGA West React Native app from development to release on the App Store and Google Play, on schedule for its August campaign.
• Own mobile release engineering for the white-label React Native app behind every banner, managing per-banner builds, store listings and compliance.
• Built in-app games end to end, including a Wordle-style word game, with interactive frontend gameplay backed by Firebase, Firestore and Cloud Functions.
• Engineer full-stack features on a shared platform serving six Canadian grocery brands, spanning customer-facing web and mobile apps and backend services.
• Mentor developers and review pull requests across the platform, keeping code quality consistent in a codebase shared by every banner.

Senior Software Developer at Uducat Corporation (2024-05 – 2025-08)

• Built an accessible (WCAG) e-commerce operations dashboard used by 50K+ daily users for inventory, orders and analytics, using React, TypeScript, Redux and Material UI.
• Designed a Node.js and MongoDB service layer handling 10K+ daily API requests at 99.9% uptime and sub-200 ms response times, serving 15+ frontend clients over REST and GraphQL.
• Cut initial load time by 42% and raised Lighthouse scores to 95+ through code-splitting, lazy loading and caching.
• Launched AI-powered storefront features: product recommendations, image-based visual search and sentiment analysis.
• Reviewed pull requests and coached developers across the frontend and backend teams.

Senior Frontend Developer at BoomerangFX (2023-05 – 2024-05)

• Built core modules of a healthcare practice platform in React and TypeScript, including a drag-and-drop report builder, in-browser image editing and secure video upload.
• Delivered a patient portal with appointment scheduling, medical history and secure messaging that cut administrative overhead by 30%.
• Shipped Stripe payments, EMR forms, health-tracking charts and a medical image viewer with zoom, annotation and comparison.
• Implemented the GraphQL and React Query data layer, owning schemas, queries, mutations and caching.
• Ran pull request reviews and mentored developers on React and TypeScript practices.

Software Developer at Infosys (2019-11 – 2022-04)

• Delivered enterprise web applications for Pfizer (employee portal) and Axis Bank (customer relationship platform) in React and Angular.
• Introduced automated testing with Jest and React Testing Library, reaching 85% coverage and reducing production defects by 45%.
• Deployed AWS CI/CD pipelines across staging, UAT and production, shortening release cycles.

Post-Graduate Diploma in Website Development – Conestoga College, Waterloo, ON (2022 – 2023)

Bachelor of Technology in Engineering – Kerala Technological University, Kerala, India (2015 – 2019)