Summary

Founding and early-stage engineering leader with 15 years building products from first commit to scale across SaaS, healthcare, and consumer tech. Built the platform acquired by Cox Automotive for $220M. Named inventor on a U.S. patent for a payment rerouting system. Equally fluent in product strategy, system architecture, and engineering leadership. Track record of joining as the first engineering hire and building the technical organization, infrastructure, and culture from scratch.

Key Expertise

• Zero-to-One Engineering: Building engineering organizations, infrastructure, and culture from scratch as the first technical hire. (Revelation Pharma, FlowPath, DriveClutch)
• Product + Engineering Alignment: Treating architecture, team structure, and technical roadmaps as product decisions. Bridging strategy and execution across departments.
• Scalable Growth: Designing systems and teams for sustainable expansion, from 5-person startups to $50M ARR scale-ups through multiple acquisitions.
• Cross-Domain Execution: Deep experience across SaaS, healthcare/pharma, consumer tech, and automotive, with compliance-aware design in regulated environments.
• Founder-to-Director Progression: Led from IC through tech lead through director, adapting leadership style at each stage without losing technical depth.

Work Experience

🏷️ Revelation Pharma

Director of Engineering: March 2024 - Present

• Engineering Leadership and Optimization:
  • Brought in to build engineering from the ground up at a compounding pharmaceutical company with IT but no engineering organization. Responsible for creating the technical function and leading the company's transformation into a technology-driven business.
  • Managed strategic consultancy partnerships and internal resources to deliver the first version of the data lake in under two quarters, enabling advanced analytics and reporting capabilities ahead of schedule and within budget.
  • Laid the foundation for a high-performing engineering team by hiring the first full-time senior data engineer and establishing strategic consultancy partnerships. Currently managing four consultancies (two active at any time) to deliver high-impact projects while optimizing costs and timelines.
  • Actively developing a long-term hiring strategy and engineering roadmap to scale the team, ensuring the organization’s technical infrastructure supports rapid growth and innovation.
• System Development and Automation:
  • Led the design and implementation of a centralized data lake, creating scalable data pipelines that unify data from disparate pharmacy systems to enable advanced analytics, reporting, and integrations.
  • Led the creation of an automated reporting platform that generates and delivers sales performance reports to B2B partners on a scheduled cadence, achieving a 100% reduction in manual Excel workflows and significantly enhancing partner satisfaction.
  • Led the consolidation of multiple legacy systems into unified web portals for patients, prescribers, and internal teams, simplifying access to critical services and improving user experiences.
• Operational Scalability and Growth:
  • Actively leading the design and development of systems to support rapid national expansion of the pharmacy network, streamlining onboarding processes and ensuring operational alignment during growth.
  • Partnered with cross-functional teams to research and select a robust CSOS (Controlled Substances Ordering System) and integrate a POS system, aligning technology with business needs.
• Leadership and Strategic Impact:
  • Serve as the go-to technology advisor for leadership, including C-level executives, VPs, & directors, providing critical input on organizational and technological decision-making.
  • Defined engineering roadmaps and systems to support the company's vision of rapid pharmacy network expansion, ensuring scalability and operational alignment with growth goals.
  • Collaborate across departments (Sales, Marketing, IT, Clinical Studies, and Operations) to deliver solutions such as predictive prescribing, AI integrations, and shipping system improvements.
  • Led efforts to create refill reminder systems powered by the data lake, resulting in measurable revenue growth and improved customer engagement.

🏷️ FlowPath

Director of Engineering: May 2021 - Dec 2023

First engineering hire. Built out the product, engineering foundation, and brand identity from scratch.

• Technical Leadership and Optimization:
  • Transformed app architecture into a modular mono-repo, enabling a shift from biweekly to daily deployments while enhancing development agility, responsiveness to customer needs, and overall code quality.
  • Led the CI/CD setup for the front end and reengineered legacy code into a modern React framework, significantly reducing complexity.
  • Developed API cache layer and implemented Single Sign-On (SSO), optimizing system efficiency and security.
• Product Enhancement and User Experience:
  • Designed a fully offline-capable application adaptable from mobile phones to ultra-wide monitors.
  • Created diverse data visualization tools (Kanban, Calendar, Map, Layout) and a dynamic drag-and-drop form builder.
  • Led branding initiatives and logo redesign and established public brand guidelines and community standards.