JOHN STEVE LISCAR JR.
Fortson,GA
Summary
Accomplished Software Engineer and Engineering Manager with 8 years of experience in designing and modernizing customer-facing applications. Leading engineering efforts at a SaaS startup, managing architecture, CI/CD, AWS environments, security, and observability. Skilled in translating product requirements into effective technical solutions and enhancing development processes through Agile methodologies and automated testing.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
Work History
Software Engineering Manager
Xperius
12.2024 - Current
- Led engineering initiatives from conception while remaining hands-on; managed and mentored four contractors and one full-time QA engineer, interviewed technical hires, delegated work, created action items, and reviewed all contractor code.
- Architect and maintain the majority of the platform's core systems across React frontend, data architecture, AWS services, real-time messaging, security, billing, and AI/MCP capabilities; translating product concepts into technical implementation plans.
- Manage 40+ AWS Lambda functions across isolated non-production and production environments, along with DynamoDB, CloudFormation, IAM, secrets/configuration, and CloudWatch monitoring and troubleshooting.
- Own CI/CD and release engineering; wrote Bitbucket deployment pipelines and manage releases to development, staging, and production, with automated tests executed as part of every deployment.
- Implemented security and reliability patterns including Cognito authentication with email MFA, tenant isolation, role-based permissions, and encryption, alongside managing retries, queue-based workload handling, and Lambda throttling.
- Designed organization-authenticated MCP tool layer exposing 25+ research and application operations to approved AI clients; built workflows that retrieve organizational context, summarize prior work, identify knowledge gaps, draft changes, and execute actions upon user confirmation.
Lead Software Engineer
ClubReady, LLC
08.2021 - 12.2024
- Led a full-stack team of 5 engineers using Agile/Scrum while contributing directly to customer-facing web/mobile development with Angular, React, and Ionic.
- Oversaw development and testing of RESTful APIs and AWS integrations using PHP and CodeIgniter; collaborated with clients, analysts, and internal stakeholders to clarify requirements and deliver tailored solutions.
- Implemented cross-platform mobile solutions with Ionic Capacitor and React Native, enhancing reporting and user experience across multiple products.
Senior UI Engineer
Horizon Software International
03.2018 - 08.2021
- Designed and maintained customer-facing Angular/Ionic applications, providing architectural guidance that enhanced collaboration during cross-functional feature development.
- Led migration of primary application from Angular v4 to v8, enhancing performance and maintainability while deploying shared-codebase mobile applications with Ionic Capacitor.
Education
Certificate - Full Stack Web Development
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta01-2018
Bachelor of Science - Applied Mathematics
Auburn University
Auburn01-2014
Skills
- Full-stack development skills
- Agile and TDD practices
- CI/CD pipeline management
- Cloud infrastructure management
- Security and reliability practices
- Software architecture
- Microservices architecture
- AI solution design
- Software development life cycle
- DevOps practices
Timeline
Software Engineering Manager
Xperius
12.2024 - Current
Lead Software Engineer
ClubReady, LLC
08.2021 - 12.2024
Senior UI Engineer
Horizon Software International
03.2018 - 08.2021
Certificate - Full Stack Web Development
Georgia Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Science - Applied Mathematics
Auburn University