Merrill Koshy Thomas

- Led architecture & development of the platform, integrating client trade finance with internal departments. - Empowered teams via data abstraction, ML/AI; optimized TATs, cut manual processes. - Ideated & turned core product into novel SaaS, enabling monetization. - Led 8 developers in a 14-member cross-functional team across 3 timezones & 2 Incomlend firms. Mentored interns. - Tech: TS-React; MUI, Formik, Storybook, NPM, Rollup; PWA w/ RTK/Vite; tied to Postgres-Python BE on AWS.

- PwC consultancy for TAMM (Abu Dhabi eGov platform): consolidated services in education, health, labor, housing & transport. Project: ADDA user journey; >900 members across Asia. - Fully remote: Slack/Workplace collab, JIRA/Gitlab management, Confluence docs. - 4 Senior Full Stack Devs in 15-member team. - Integrated services & payments into unified platform; cut steps, clicks resulting in 50% efficiency boost and exponential user growth. Tech: TS-React FE; NestJS-Node BE; Camunda workflow; ELK analysis.

- Designed and developed websites, PWA admin panels, ERP systems using MERN and JAMstack, cross-platform mobile apps using React Native, online and print advertising campaigns [social media posts, logos, flyers, packaging, signboards, promotions] including video editing. - Worked closely with managers and stakeholders for planning, designing and development iterations. - Digitized 2 startups and a scaleup in 6 months, singlehandedly delivering complete software and advertising solutions.

- Close collaboration with stakeholders across all phases; worked with cross-functional team (fashion designers, tailors, sales & marketing) to deliver efficient solutions via iterative development. - Led and collaborated with a team of 3 developers. Significantly boosted brand visibility through enhanced online presence; opened new sales channels like retail market entry & multiple clothing lines → ~120% revenue growth. Tech: TS-NextJS, ExpressJS, React Native, MongoDB & Firebase, GitHub & Vercel DevOps.

Retained the existing client base and scaled their products. - Won 6 new projects while leading a cross-functional team. - Designed and developed websites and mobile apps for 11 projects. - Integrated payment gateways, online booking and client-provided APIs thereby scaling existing services. Created and led online and print advertising campaigns [social media posts, logos, flyers, signboards, promotions] using Adobe Photoshop & Illustrator, 3D with SketchUp & Blender, and video editing with Filmora.

Project: Site Health Checker Created an internal tool to inspect all the hosted sites of the company on their health checks with in-app reporting of site uptime and downtime, site traffic and hotspots thereby increasing service efficiency and reducing turnaround time. The project was built with Python using PyCharm and Tkinter, transitioning later to Kivy. Led by a Senior developer over a course of 8 months, inclusive of training.

Developed an Online Tourism Information System, which manages the user's trips, hotel stays and destinations with booking and time management. This included an Admin Module as well to onboard the user and facilitate the services provided. Built on C# and ASP.NET over a course of 8 months with 3 developers and a tech lead.