Tom Colarusso

Full-Stack Software Engineer

Buffalo, NY — 13+ years building fintech platforms, distributed systems, and real-time web applications. Currently at Verivend.

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About

Full-stack software engineering leader with 13+ years of experience spanning backend and frontend development, distributed systems, and engineering management. Currently driving full-stack delivery on a fintech capital-raising platform for private equity and venture capital deals — architecting a multi-year Vue 2 to Vue 3 platform migration and authoring .NET/C# backend services alongside the frontends they power. Previously led two engineering teams and 10+ engineers, set frontend standards adopted by 100+ engineers company-wide, and drove an observability migration that cut ~$1M in annual costs. Also a Claude Code power user, driving team-wide AI-development enablement across custom skills, subagents, MCP servers, and workflows.

Skills

Frontend

Vue 3TypeScriptViteTailwind CSSPiniaVue RouterAngularJSHTML5CSS3

Backend

C# / .NETEntity Framework CoreREST API DesignNode.jsPHPNServiceBus

Infrastructure & Tooling

AWSDockerNetlifyDatadogCircleCIGitHub ActionsVitestPlaywrightStorybook

Architecture

Distributed SystemsEvent-DrivenCQRSSOAMicroservicesDomain-Driven Design

AI-Assisted Development

Claude Code (power user)SkillsSubagentsMCP ServersAgentic Workflows