Summary
Tommy Bolger is a Contract Lead Fullstack Developer based in California with over 16 years of hands-on experience building and modernizing web applications across front-end, back-end, and database layers. He specializes in backend architecture and has repeatedly led projects from concept through design, implementation, testing, CI, and maintenance—most recently building a marine animal health tracking SaaS (CETO) for the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation using Laravel, Vue 3, MySQL, Docker, and automated test suites. Tommy has a strong track record migrating legacy systems to modern stacks, converting monoliths to microservices, and improving developer workflows via Docker and CI, while also driving GraphQL and comprehensive testing adoption. Comfortable in both Windows and Linux system administration, he pairs deep technical execution with cross-functional collaboration, mentoring colleagues and translating stakeholder requirements into working workflows. Notably, he has extensive experience importing and reconciling complex legacy data sources (MS Access, varied analytics feeds) into robust, searchable databases—an underappreciated skill that reduces risk during platform rewrites.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Information Systems, Bachelor of Science Computer Information Systems at Devry University of Pomona