Anthony C. Jones

Summary

Staff software engineer and technical lead with 15+ years leading architecture and development for enterprise platforms across healthcare, energy, and enterprise technology. Proven track record building and mentoring distributed engineering teams and driving durable architecture decisions, from greenfield builds through complex system integrations. Currently championing AI-assisted development at WellSky, building custom Claude Code workflows adopted team-wide to raise engineering velocity and code quality.

Experience

1. Senior Staff Software Engineer — Technical Lead

   Mar 2023 — Present

   WellSky · Spring, TX (Remote)

   • Lead feature architecture and development for a proprietary care management platform serving thousands of hospitals and providers, built on .NET and hosted on Google Cloud Platform.
   • Designed and rolled out a suite of custom Claude Code skills and commands that standardized AI-assisted coding practices across the team, directly supporting corporate AI adoption initiatives and reducing repetitive development overhead.
   • Led integration initiatives with internal systems and external vendors, ensuring consistent patient data alignment across applications.
   • Architected the company's community referral solution, integrated into the core platform to sunset a redundant internal product.
   • Served as primary architect of a feature flag system that decoupled deployments from feature completion, enabling more frequent releases.
   • Led an ongoing initiative to migrate business logic out of stored procedures and into the application codebase, improving long-term maintainability and developer ownership.

2. Principal Software Engineer — Technical Lead

   Jun 2022 — Mar 2023

   Dell Technologies · Spring, TX (Remote)

   • Guided a team of 7 developers delivering features for the Dell shipping platform using a microservices and micro-frontend architecture built on C#, .NET 6, MongoDB, and Lit.
   • Resolved high-priority defects to improve system reliability and operational efficiency.
   • Mentored junior and mid-level engineers and led code reviews, raising code quality and consistency across the team.

3. Lead Product Software Engineer

   Dec 2021 — Jun 2022

   Wolters Kluwer · Spring, TX (Remote)

   • Contributed to Vanceo Consumer Commercial, a greenfield Angular and .NET Core platform built to modernize and replace a legacy ASP.NET loan origination system, collaborating across front-end and back-end layers.
   • Took sole ownership of a .NET microservice responsible for loan term calculations, ensuring accuracy and consistency across the platform.

4. Software Development Manager

   Nov 2017 — Dec 2021

   Smith & Burgess · Houston, TX (Hybrid)

   • Spearheaded development of a new cloud-based version of the company's Salus application suite using Vue.js, C#, .NET Core, SQL Server, and Azure.
   • Developed architecture diagrams and documentation for features implemented across the team, ensuring consistent implementation and easier onboarding.
   • Supported the legacy product with bug fixes and minor feature work while building the migration path to the cloud version.
   • Led a team of 6 internal developers and provided oversight for 3 international contract development teams.

5. Senior Software Developer

   Jul 2012 — Nov 2017

   Smith & Burgess · Houston, TX

   • Played an instrumental role in creating the Salus application suite for plant and refinery safety analysis, generating a new revenue stream for the company.
   • Developed desktop application features using C#, WPF, SQL Server, NHibernate ORM, Caliburn.Micro (MVVM), and Castle Windsor (dependency injection).
   • Developed web viewer application features using AngularJS, .NET Web API, Entity Framework, SQL Server, and Unity DI Framework.
   • Served as primary developer of physics-based calculations integrated with a thermodynamics engine.
   • Built and maintained all application build and release pipelines in Azure DevOps.

Additional work experience available upon request.

Core competencies

Education