Donald Thai
Senior Software Engineer at Capital One
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDonald Thai is a Senior Software Engineer and team lead with 14 years of experience building reliable web applications and APIs across React, Go, C#, and ASP.NET. He has driven delivery for both government (DoD Transcom MilMove) and fintech platforms, improving performance, observability, and deployment efficiency while mentoring teams of engineers. Known for turning ambiguous requirements into auditable, production-ready features, he introduced an audit history log, team agreements, and Lighthouse-driven performance improvements at Truss. At OpenEdge he led RESTful API development, achieved high test coverage, sped up transaction search by 50%, and deployed rapid CI/CD pipelines. Based in San Francisco with a Blockchain specialization from the University of Nicosia, he blends backend rigor with front-end pragmatism and a penchant for continuous performance tuning. Outside work he’s a dog dad and heavy-lifting enthusiast, bringing the same discipline to engineering and life.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at San José State UniversityBlockchain, Blockchain at University of Nicosia
Github Skills (65)
testing10
excel10
safari10
browser10
microsoft-edge10
firefox10
csv10
snippet10
browserstack10
dom10
w3c10
test-runner10
gecko10
google-chrome10
grid10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Thundercats/LAN-MAC-Protocol-Simulator
Mar 2012 - Apr 2012
Contributions:26 commits in 1 month
donaldthai/melovedoordash
Apr 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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