David Helmer
Engineering Leader
Atlanta, GA
> SKILLS
Leadership & Delivery
Cloud & Platforms
Languages
> EXPERIENCE
> Senior Software Engineering Manager
AcuityMD
Remote
- Managing the Territories pod
> Senior Software Engineering Manager
Komodo Health
Remote
- Progressed from launching a new product team to managing multiple engineering teams across developer tooling, platform infrastructure, and data products with high reliability and compliance needs.
- AI Ethics Council (2025-05 to 2025-09): guide policy and implementation standards for responsible generative AI.
- Founded and scaled the Developer Experience team; delivered MapLab Workspaces, a secure R/Python IDE integrated with platform APIs/SDKs; leading an AI‑powered code assistant for NL→code generation in compliant environments.
- Managed Universal Cohort Creator (UCC), minimizing downtime through a large cross‑org migration.
- Managed Analytics API (AAPI), a reusable platform API for analytics/dashboarding in collaboration with data science and infra teams.
- Led Komodo Publications Planning (KPP), a Salesforce‑native app with a React/AWS portal; launched with Pfizer and Amgen and established as a reliable revenue product; owned hiring, onboarding, delivery process, and product/implementation partnership.
> Engineering Manager
Komodo Health
Remote
- Built and managed teams delivering platform services and developer experience capabilities with strong SLAs and compliance posture.
> Lead Software Engineer
Komodo Health (acquired Mavens Consulting Jan 2021)
Remote
- Established foundations for KPP and platform components later scaled across teams.
> Technical Architect
Mavens Consulting
Remote
- Architected a document portal surfacing approved content to global healthcare workers while complying with country‑specific regulations.
- Led a centralized global Identity & Consent solution adopted by Lilly, Teva, and AbbVie.
- Designed and developed a configurable, real‑time Python integration on AWS to keep user account data in sync for Lilly.
- Implemented Veeva CRM for major clients in Europe and North America.
> Senior Software Engineer
OgilvyOne / DTDigital
Melbourne, VIC, Australia
- Led web development (e‑commerce and mobile) for Bunnings, Australia’s largest home improvement retailer.
- Built a web service for feature parity between website and iOS app for bookarestaurant.com (now OpenTable Australia).
- Implemented a relevance algorithm to match users with content for planbig.com (Bendigo Bank community platform).
> Software Engineer
Earth Networks
Germantown, MD
- Coded and maintained an XML web service delivering weather data to partner developers, including Verizon.
- Maintained the Message Delivery Engine for weather conditions and alerts via SMS, email, CAP, and WCF protocols.
> Software Engineer
Sonum Technologies
Columbia, MD
- Designed and built front‑end applications with NLP‑driven features.
> PROJECTS
> MapLab Workspaces
Secure R/Python IDE integrated with Komodo APIs/SDKs; powering internal engineering and external HEOR/RWE users in compliant environments; includes AI code assistant.
> Universal Cohort Creator (UCC)
Mission‑critical cohort platform; led migration with minimal downtime through cross‑org collaboration.
> Analytics API (AAPI)
Reusable platform APIs for analytics/dashboarding in partnership with data science and infrastructure teams.
> Komodo Publications Planning (KPP)
Salesforce‑native app with React/AWS portal; launched with Pfizer and Amgen; became a reliable revenue product.
> Global Identity & Consent (Mavens)
Centralized identity/consent solution adopted by Lilly, Teva, and AbbVie.
> EDUCATION
> B.S. Computer Science
University of Maryland, College Park