Software Engineer at Perioptima.ai

2025 - Present

Founding team, healthcare AI startup focused on post-surgical patient care and ERAS guideline adherence.

• Joined as a founding backend engineer and owned backend API development: helped design the PostgreSQL/Supabase schema, FastAPI endpoints, and overall service architecture; working directly with the PM from initial scoping through MVP delivery.
• Built a LangChain/LangGraph RAG pipeline for an AI-powered clinical chatbot: retrieves structured patient records, queries ERAS medical guidelines via vector embeddings, and enforces safety guardrails to keep responses accurate and on-task.
• Developed a rule-based clinical decision engine with python-experta (CLIPS reimplementation) that dynamically adjusts patient care plans based on real-time health data and patient conditions.
• Designed Bayesian Network models from peer-reviewed literature for patient risk stratification, feeding structured risk scores into the decision engine alongside real-time sensor data.

Co-Founder, ML and Backend Engineer at Biotascape, LLC

2023 - 2025

Startup focused on building an Pokemon-Go-like educational game involving species classification and custom tactile hardware.

• Owned the backend as co-founder, from data modeling through deployment, and did a significant amount of the Unity/C# app development.
• Fine-tuned a BEiT Vision Transformer in PyTorch on millions of iNaturalist images; devised a hierarchical target encoding for fine-grained classification across 350k+ species. Applied knowledge distillation and ONNX quantization to run the model in real time on Android with no network dependency at inference time.
• Built and operated a containerized cloud inference API; managed a PostgreSQL and MongoDB databases.

Staff Software Engineer at Brigham Minerals

2022 - 2023

Oil and gas mineral rights platform for energy professionals: production tracking, acquisition and divestiture analysis, and asset evaluation.

• A core developer of Mineral Analytics, a Django + React/Redux platform with PostGIS-backed geospatial search used for acreage evaluation and production analysis.
• Co-developed the Mineral Aggregator microservice: an medallion-like ETL pipeline ingesting land tract and production data from Texas RRC, state regulatory agencies, Shapefiles, the Enverus API, and third-party feeds into a PostGIS geospatial database, with automated quality checks and an analytics layer on top.
• Shipped and operated the platform on a self-managed Kubernetes cluster with Jenkins CI/CD pipelines; served as Scrum Master.

Senior Software Engineer at Helios Technologies Inc

2021 - 2022

• Built real-time fault diagnostic and data visualization interfaces for industrial electronic controllers, displaying live sensor data to operations teams. Stack: TypeScript, Node.js, Electron.js.

Senior Software Engineer at BJN Technologies

2013 - 2020

Software consultancy serving industrial and medical device clients. My work on the Mineral Analytics platform started here.

• Translated business requirements from medical device, industrial, and mineral rights acquistion clients into production software across multiple concurrent engagements.
• A primary developer of Mineral Analytics for several years: joined when it was an early Python/jQuery prototype and grew it into a full Django + React/Redux + PostGIS platform, then re-architected the deployment into microservices on a self-managed Kubernetes cluster with CI/CD and Prometheus/Grafana monitoring throughout.
• Worked across the full stack (frontend, backend, database, DevOps), operated the platform in production with end-to-end monitoring, and mentored junior engineers through code reviews and architecture discussions.
• Also wrote firmware in C for electronic control systems and a cochlear implant. And built various C#/WPF, PyQt, Angular, and JavaFX desktop applications for debugging, testing, and embedded the embedded hardware.