Hello there, my name is:
Alby Thomas
I'm a NYC based software engineer with +5 years of experience and a passion for product engineering.
About Me
I grew up in Michigan and pursued my passion for technology by studying Computer Science at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Since graduating, I've had the opportunity to work at a diverse range of companies, from innovative Series A startups to established leaders in Big Tech. Currently, I'm proud to be contributing as a Senior Software Engineer at Nourish.

Where I've Worked

Nourish
2025 - Current

Grubhub (Acquired by Wonder 🤷🏾♂️)
2024 - 2025
- Led the payments platform team in a security hardening initiative to protect Grubhub from card testing attacks.

Valon
2022 - 2024
- Led the credit reporting infrastructure project and introduced bulk editing features which enhanced system scalability and reduced eng involvement by 95%.
- Took ownership of the company's bulk invoice system by devising comprehensive test cases and implementing missing functionalities that reduced the operation team’s data entry time by 70%.
- Simplified monthly investor portfolio onboarding process by condensing several manual operations into singular API calls which were made accessible to the operations team through a retool, reducing portfolio setup from 1 hour to 1 minute.
- Owned multiple investor reports and their automated generation to inform clients on loan level activity across all their portfolios.

Capsule
2021 - 2022
- Led the development of a daily patient adherence calculator that aggregates prescription data across various healthcare partners and computes prescription compliance for over 50,000 patients.
- Directed the back-end development efforts of Capsule's Rx status bar by creating a microservice that subscribes to prescription status updates through an outbox pattern and allows customers to know real-time updates on their prescriptions.
- Spearheaded the integration of AWS Canaries onto existing systems with high traffic to better monitor the health and latency of endpoints and web pages.

JPMorgan Chase & Co.
2021 - 2022
- Prevented defects from getting introduced to the Chase website and mobile app by developing code that enhances the firm's functional UI testing framework.
- Developed an Angular and Java Spring based web dashboard used by over 300 engineers to quickly review the results of their functional UI tests and identify risks.