AI Lead Full Stack .NET Engineer with React exp.

Experience & Expertise 10-14 years in software engineering with 3+ years leading development teams. Strong hands-on expertise in Full-Stack .NET, React and TypeScript; working knowledge of Kafka. Demonstrable experience using AI coding assistants on live projects — not evaluation or pilot exposure. Microservices, REST API design and cloud-native delivery on Azure or AWS with mature CI/CD. Strong test automation practice across unit, integration and end-to-end layers. Ability to coach and raise the technical bar across a team. Responsibilities & Expectations Lead a pod of eight engineers; own technical execution, sprint delivery and code quality. Operate the spec-driven development workflow end to end — specification, plan, task breakdown, generation, validation and review. Act as merge authority; critically review AI-generated code against standards, security and coverage thresholds. Coach engineers on specification authoring, agent steering and output verification. Contribute reusable prompts, patterns and context assets to the project knowledge layer. Own test-first discipline within the pod and ensure automated coverage gates are met.