Activated Insights (post-acquisition) · Remote

• Led a five-engineer team and cut cycle time 35% by adding an AI-assisted review step before CI/CD, which reduced back-and-forth in human code review.
• Cut hosting costs 50% and response times by more than 25% by moving the application from a managed VPS onto Activated Insights' shared AWS infrastructure.
• Designed SSO and role-based access control on Keycloak, then led remediation after third-party penetration testing.

WeCare Connect (acquired by Activated Insights, 2025) · Frankenmuth, MI, later remote

• Built v1 of the survey platform from scratch, choosing Laravel and Angular for speed to first customer, and landed the first paying customer three months later. Ran all infrastructure alone for 18 months until the first hire.
• Met remotely with facility administrators one to two times a month to learn their workflows before writing code, turning them into PRDs and cutting features they wouldn't use.
• Joined sales calls, ran customer support, and set quarterly product priorities.
• Kept engineering lean while revenue grew to $3M+, hiring from zero to five developers and running every technical interview and onboarding session.
• Shipped 15 HRIS and EMR integrations from PRDs and technical specs written with the customers who needed them.
• Kept the platform HIPAA (US) and PIPEDA (Canada) compliant across 1,300+ long-term care facilities with encryption at rest, access logging, and signed BAAs.
• Cut dashboard load times for large clients from 20+ seconds to under 1 second by replacing ORM queries with raw SQL, views, and targeted denormalization.
• Served as primary technical contact through the acquisition, answering every technical due diligence question.

STAGES Software · Frankenmuth, MI

• Joined as a junior developer on a K-12 teacher evaluation platform serving 500+ school districts across multiple states; became the lead architect.
• Migrated the application from no framework to Laravel with no downtime.
• Hired and led three developers as the team grew.