Donnie Ray Jones

[email protected] donnierayjones.com

Summary

10+ years full-stack developer specializing in React, TypeScript, and .NET applications with experience leading development teams and building scalable solutions.

Work Experience

Counterpart Health (Clover Health subsidiary)

Frontend Engineer

March 2025 - Current
New Zealand / Remote
  • Building frontend solutions for Counterpart Assistant, an AI-powered clinical decision support platform that provides real-time, actionable insights to physicians at the point of care, helping improve patient outcomes and reduce costs for Medicare Advantage plans and value-based care providers.
  • Technologies: TypeScript, React, gRPC, Git, GitHub, Storybook

Code Doc

Software Developer (Self-Employed)

Sep 2024 - Current
New Zealand
  • Apps:
    • Finding Color - a mobile app for iPhone and iPad that allows users to search for coloring pages (via Bing's Image Search API) then print or color within the app.
    • A web app that allows customers to configure & build conveyor system rollers, get an estimate, and submit an order
  • Technologies: React, React Native, Expo, TypeScript, Node.js, Amazon Web Services (API Gateway, Lambda, DynamoDB), Terraform

Sabbatical / Travel / Family

Stay-at-home Dad

Jan 2020 - Sep 2024
Texas → New Zealand
  • Chose to spend time with my 4 kids while they were young
  • Helped my partner run a social media business
  • Explored Colorado, Utah, Hawaii and more
  • Moved from Texas to New Zealand

Tyler Technologies

Senior Lead Software Engineer

Jun 2009 - Jan 2020
Texas / Remote

Tyler Technologies is a USA-based leading provider of software and technology solutions for the public sector, specializing in helping local governments, schools, and other public institutions streamline their operations.

Role: Led a team of 6 developers while architecting and building enterprise payment solutions and web applications for government clients.

  • Leadership & Process: Advocate of automated testing (unit, integration, acceptance), continuous delivery, trunk-based development, feature toggles, and CI/CD with TeamCity and Octopus Deploy
  • Technologies: C#, .NET Core/.NET Framework, ASP.NET MVC, EntityFramework, JavaScript, SQL Server, Azure, PowerShell, HTML/CSS (Sass), Git, NUnit, Selenium
  • Major Achievements:
    • 3-time winner of division-wide developer contest (24-hour proof of concept challenges)
    • Built PCI compliant digital wallet and payment processing platform used company-wide
    • Developed payment portal handling 10+ million payments ($1.3+ billion processed as of 2020)
  • Notable Projects:
    • Payment APIs enabling cities to store credit cards securely off-site and process recurring payments
    • USPS mail certification and presorting web API for municipal billing
    • Online defensive driving course content management system with video and quiz capabilities
    • Production server monitoring mobile app and Chrome extension
    • Company-wide employee notification system (1,800+ users)
    • Court records search application with web services integration

Education

Texas A&M University

B.S. in Computer Science, Minor in Business

2006 - 2008
3.77 GPA

Tyler Junior College

Computer Science

2004 - 2006
3.89 GPA

Awards & Scholarships