Tony Isaac

Spring, Texas, United States / Remote

Seasoned engineering leader who builds motivated, high-performing teams and uses a pragmatic approach to create great software.

Current: Continuing to lead software engineering work while building on a long track record of delivery, team leadership, and technical strategy.

In a Nutshell

Providing technical leadership, building motivated teams who in turn build excellent software.

Seasoned leader, overseeing projects spanning multiple development teams
A strong focus on people and their strengths, providing coaching and mentorship
Long track record in software project estimation and fixed-price quotes
Able to translate between technical and non-technical people
Agile philosophy, building processes and removing roadblocks to achieve results rapidly and predictably
Experienced in managing local, remote, and offshore teams, with no “second-class citizens”

Staying technically strong enables me to guide teams in making solid architectural decisions.

Continually updating technology expertise through volunteer software development in genetics and genealogy
Languages: C#, JavaScript, C++, HTML/CSS, more than 20 others
Frameworks: .NET Core, MVC, jQuery, Bootstrap, some React, others
Database development and performance tuning: SQL Server, PostgreSQL, other SQL and no-SQL databases, star schemas and normal forms, Dapper, Entity Framework
Platforms: Microsoft stack, Azure, AWS, RabbitMQ, Docker, some Linux

June 2026 to Present
Aiden Technologies, Inc., Spring, Texas (Remote)

March 2023 to June 2026
TCP Software, San Angelo, Texas (Remote)

Led three mixed remote and on-prem software development teams in web development, data integration pipelines, and AWS deployments
Built two teams from scratch, to build SSO middleware and integration data pipelines
Improved employee retention and morale, reducing the attrition rate from 40%, to less than 10%
Improved integration software quality, resulting in customer retention increasing from 35% to 95%
Built automated deployments and validation processes, eliminating days-long outages that had resulted from botched manual deployments
Increased the capacity of integration pipelines, originally struggling to support customers with dozens of employees, to handling customers with hundreds of thousands of employees

June 2020 to February 2023
Envoy Mortgage, Houston, Texas

Led an all-remote software development team in web development, automation, business intelligence, and reporting
Transformed the software development process from ad-hoc changes in response to emails, to a repeatable, trackable process using git and Azure DevOps with automated deployments
Trained developers in good software development practices and continuous improvement, helping them move from antiquated ASP.NET web apps to .NET Core MVC with API-based architecture
Worked with the business to move from lengthy, formal requirements documents to digestible bullet points
Achieved successful migration from a legacy loan origination system to a more robust system (Encompass), enabling automation and full API and database integration with internal software

July 2016 to July 2019
Ontellus, Houston, Texas

Managed multiple teams, including software development, QA, and DBA teams
Improved processes, trained and mentored team members
Led the team through successful SOC 2 audits to demonstrate solid processes to customers
Designed technical solutions to fulfill requirements related to business processes and pipelines, using C#, ASP.NET MVC architecture
Designed and implemented DevOps solutions to automate builds and software deployments using Jenkins
Designed and built processing pipelines using RabbitMQ

August 2014 to June 2016
Family Tree DNA, Houston, Texas

Oversaw all software development at FamilyTreeDNA.com
Served as project manager for new feature development and ongoing maintenance
Worked with the team to develop underlying architecture for high availability, high volume Web site and processing pipeline operations
Maintained and enhanced familytreedna.com Web site using Microsoft stack development in C#, MVC, ASPX, jQuery, Angular, and SQL Server, with some PostgreSQL
Enhanced SQL Server database performance through query performance tuning, in an environment processing hundreds of thousands of operations per second, with tables containing billions of rows
Developed automated build and deployment scripts using TeamCity and OctopusDeploy for reproducible, seamless site updates, usually requiring no down time for software updates
Developed autosomal processing pipelines using RabbitMQ

April 2009 to July 2014
Visualutions, Spring, Texas

Oversaw, and contributed code, to the development of a suite of medical practice management, EDI, and EMR applications
Oversaw the merger of two companies' programming teams, and subsequent team growth
Implemented agile processes, replacing an ad-hoc development model
Served on a HIPAA-compliance team, designing technical solutions where appropriate
Managed development of hundreds of custom SSRS reports for customers per month

Designed and developed the Mennonite DNA Project www.mennonitedna.org, including DNA matching algorithms and contributor-accessible web site
Building a GRANDMA Database Manager, used to manage a family tree comprised of 1.5 million individuals
Member of the board of directors

2004 to 2020