18+ years building production software and leading the people behind it. From national retail and vehicle diagnostics to multi-tenant platforms and AI.
Technical Lead & Senior
Full-Stack Engineer
18+ years of code.
Still hands-on.
I’m Baron Doss—a hands-on technical lead and senior full-stack engineer with 18+ years designing, building, modernizing, and supporting scalable web applications. I lead teams, mentor engineers, and stay close to the code. Right now I’m running DossX, building AI-enabled solutions with Node.js, React/Next.js, Python, and PostgreSQL, including hands-on work with RAG and AI agents.
Manager, Pylot Development
Engineering Manager / Technical Lead
Built the platform.
Led the team.
Architected and built a multi-tenant platform with Node.js, React, and TypeScript, then led migration of the corporate website onto the new architecture. Owned technical direction and roadmap execution while staying hands-on with implementation, code review, and production delivery.
Software Engineer / DevOps Engineer · Technical Lead
Sole internal engineer and IT lead for a 20–30 person marketing technology company, owning requirements, architecture, AWS infrastructure, security, releases, and production support. Modernized a core application from PHP / MySQL to Next.js, Node.js, and MongoDB.
Next.js · Node.js · PHP · React · MongoDB · SQL · SQL Server · AWS · CI/CDSoftware Engineer · Lead
Led Node.js API development and mentored approximately eight developers. Migrated a distributed vehicle diagnostics platform to Docker-based microservices on AWS with automated CI/CD, enabling reliable zero-downtime releases.
Built a dealer analytics dashboard supporting approximately $1M in upsell opportunities in its first year.
Node.js · REST APIs · PHP · React · SQL ·AWS · Python · CI/CDSenior Software Engineer
Owned customer-facing product pages, cart, and checkout for a national retailer. Delivered production features as e-commerce grew from 11.1% to 16.1% of total company sales.
eCommerce · Product detail · Cart & checkoutWeb Application Developer
Rebuilt the corporate website as one responsive PHP application, consolidating separate desktop and mobile experiences into a single platform, and developed internal tools for order processing, inventory, and reporting across the franchise.
PHP · Responsive web · Internal applicationsSoftware Engineer / Web Development Lead
Led software and web development projects for a federal agency serving five states and 66 Tribal Nations. Directed modernization of legacy government systems.
C# · ColdFusion · PHP · MySql · Oracle · ModernizationI’m Baron. Senior software engineer, technical lead, and founder of DossX.
I’ve spent 18+ years building and modernizing production software, from federal systems and national retail to cloud platforms and AI. I’ve led engineering teams of up to ten, mentored dozens of developers, and stayed hands-on with the code the whole way—rebuilding e-commerce checkout flows at Pier 1 Imports, modernizing legacy federal systems for the U.S. EPA, architecting multi-tenant SaaS platforms, and now building RAG-based AI tools as the founder of DossX. I hold a B.S. in Computer Science from Southern Methodist University.
My approach is straightforward: understand what matters, challenge unnecessary complexity, and build something useful. I care as much about the systems behind the interface as I do about the interface itself.
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