Teams at Social Discovery Group

Leads end-to-end modernization from a monolith to microservices, including legacy analysis, architecture, estimation, data migration, deployment, and production support. Guides .NET services, databases, messaging, containerization, and frontend integrations. Acts as the technical escalation point for complex issues while improving Jira tracking, estimation accuracy, QA collaboration, release predictability, and engineering processes. Manages and develops the team through one-on-ones, performance reviews, feedback, and career-focused objectives.

Manage and optimize high-load Microsoft SQL Server databases, including advanced T-SQL development, query and execution-plan optimization, indexing, locking, memory, disk performance, AlwaysOn availability, maintenance, recovery, security, integrity checks, monitoring, and incident resolution. Support analysts and ML engineers with reliable data access across databases reaching tens of terabytes.

Drive quality assurance for web features from technical handoff through production release. Responsibilities include test planning, test case creation, functional and exploratory testing, regression, UI/UX, cross-browser, responsive, API, and end-to-end testing. Support releases through build validation and monitoring, document and review tests, collaborate with product and engineering teams, improve QA metrics, and optionally contribute to test automation.