Engineering leader in MedTech software. At AcuityMD I lead two teams. One builds AI agents with customers, including a manager-facing agent that ships only when it passes its evals. The other owns territory and account alignment. Before that, healthcare data and developer platforms at Komodo Health, and life-sciences delivery at Mavens Consulting.
nowSenior Software Engineering Manager, AcuityMD
beforeKomodo Health · Mavens Consulting · OgilvyOne / DTDigital · Earth Networks · Sonum Technologies
whereAtlanta, GA · remote
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Senior Software Engineering Manager
AcuityMD · Remote · 2025-09 → now
Lead two engineering teams building AI and platform capabilities for MedTech commercial organizations.
Lead the Customer Intelligence + AI team, partnering directly with customers through AI Build Partnerships to build agentic solutions that drive measurable business outcomes.
Led the engineering buildout of the team’s manager-facing agent, including its MedTech-specific tooling and the eval suite and observability that gate its quality.
Lead the SCALE team, which owns AcuityMD’s territory and account-alignment platform—the system that defines how MedTech commercial organizations are structured, scoped, and measured.
Own roadmap, staffing, and hiring across both teams.
Senior Software Engineering Manager
Komodo Health · Remote · 2023-10 → 2025-09
Managed multiple engineering teams across developer tooling, platform infrastructure, and data products with high reliability and compliance needs.
Served on the AI Ethics Council (May–Sep 2025), helping set policy and implementation standards for responsible generative AI.
Founded and scaled the Developer Experience team, delivering MapLab Workspaces and an AI-powered code assistant for natural-language-to-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.
Engineering Manager
Komodo Health · Remote · 2021-01 → 2023-09
Built and managed teams delivering platform services and developer experience capabilities with strong SLAs and compliance posture.
Hired and onboarded engineers, establishing delivery processes.
Launched Komodo Publications Planning (KPP) with Pfizer and Amgen as product and implementation partners, establishing it as a reliable revenue line.
Lead Software Engineer
Komodo Health · acquired Mavens Consulting Jan 2021 · Remote · 2020-10 → 2021-01
Established foundations for KPP and platform components later scaled across teams.
Technical Architect
Mavens Consulting · Remote · 2012-10 → 2020-10
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 · 2010-07 → 2012-08
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 · 2006-08 → 2010-06
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 · 2005-01 → 2006-06
Designed and built front‑end applications with NLP‑driven features.
MapLab Workspaces
AWS, Python, R, TypeScript
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)
AWS
Mission‑critical cohort platform; led migration with minimal downtime through cross‑org collaboration.
Analytics API (AAPI)
TypeScript, Python, AWS
Reusable platform APIs for analytics/dashboarding in partnership with data science and infrastructure teams.
Komodo Publications Planning (KPP)
Salesforce, React, AWS
Salesforce‑native app with React/AWS portal; launched with Pfizer and Amgen; became a reliable revenue product.
Global Identity & Consent (Mavens)
AWS, Python, Salesforce
Centralized identity/consent solution adopted by Lilly, Teva, and AbbVie.
B.S. Computer Science
University of Maryland, College Park · 2002-08 → 2006-05
Leadership & DeliveryEngineering team management · Technical hiring · Mentorship · Product delivery · Roadmap planning · Cross‑functional collaboration
Cloud & PlatformsAWS
LanguagesTypeScript · Python · Go · C#
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