Thomas Stock

Product-minded front-end lead with 20 years of shipping web software, from .NET to React.

Current focus

Leading front-end at Peripass. Making the codebase AI-ready through developer and agent experience: conventions, CI and fast feedback loops.
Owning architecture, growing teams and setting the conventions that keep a codebase healthy when humans and AI both write the code.
Figuring out how anyone can ship with AI responsibly: guardrails, review, tests, conventions.

Peripass

June 2023 – present

Freelance Lead Front-end Engineer

Preparing the codebase and team for AI-assisted development: conventions, guardrails and a review flow so anyone can ship with AI responsibly.
Moving a legacy ASP.NET MVC front-end to React, including a responsive kiosk and mobile web app.
Rewrote a legacy Xamarin app in React Native.
Built the UI test framework on Playwright.

Aprimo

2015 – May 2023

Lead React Developer

Joined as ASP.NET developer, React developer from 2017, lead from 2021

Technical lead for a team of about nine front-end developers: architecture, final pull-request reviews, long-term project health.
Core architecture and UX guidance for a large enterprise React product.
Mentored juniors and new hires, ran technical interviews.

Earlier roles

2006 – 2014

Web, Windows and mobile apps on .NET at four companies: CMS implementations, kiosk and point-of-sale software, stock management on barcode scanners.

D Soft · Orbit One · TrustTeam · Indiegroup

D Soft · .NET Developer

2013 – 2014

ASP.NET MVC, Xamarin (iOS), Apache Cordova

Orbit One · .NET Developer

2010 – 2012

ASP.NET, Umbraco CMS, SharePoint 2010, Dynamics CRM 2011, MS SQL

TrustTeam · .NET Developer

2008 – 2010

Stock management and point-of-sale apps on barcode scanning devices, Self-registration kiosk software, ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, jQuery, WPF, WinForms, PHP, MS SQL

Indiegroup · .NET Developer

2006 – 2007

ASP.NET, Telerik controls, MS SQL