San Francisco Bay Area
Chief Technology Officer and repeat scaler with 20+ years of experience and a track record of growing healthcare technology companies through rapid growth, acquisition, and platform transformation. Built and led distributed engineering organizations from 4 to 110+ while enabling revenue growth from zero to $130M+ across regulated environments (HIPAA, SOC, HITRUST, FDA). Hands-on technical leader driving platform modernization and company-wide AI adoption — from AI-assisted development and engineering productivity to LLM-powered automation across clinical workflows, patient member experience, and claims processing. Focused on building high-trust engineering cultures, modern platforms, and AI-enabled operating models. Continuously tracking and applying emerging AI capabilities to accelerate delivery and unlock measurable business impact.
Stellar Health simplifies, enables, and rewards high-quality care delivery for healthcare providers and practices everywhere.
Lantern is an 800-employee PE-backed Specialty Care network (valued at over $1B) covering surgeries, cancer, and infusion while significantly reducing healthcare costs. Defined and executed a full-scale transformation of Lantern’s Technology strategy, organization (110+ team members) and platform. Reporting directly to the CEO, while improving delivery, reducing costs, and maintaining budget discipline during a period of significant change, while supporting 40% YoY growth. • Rebuilt and scaled the Technology team by nearly 50 hires across the US and Canada within the first year, while transitioning from an offshore to a high-caliber local team. • Modernized platform, increased release cadence, led Salesforce Health Cloud implementation • Led company-wide AI adoption (50%+ tool adoption; 20% of code AI-assisted), including piloting AI and LLM driven claims pricing. • Reduced annual vendor spend by $500K+ and consistently operated within budget through proactive headcount and spend management without compromising delivery or talent quality.
Accolade is a publicly traded, 2,500-employee health advocacy services and technology company. Led engineering for Accolade’s Virtual Primary Care (VPC) business and Member Experience across all product lines within a publicly traded healthcare platform, supporting Fortune 500 employers, health plans, and mid-market customers while supporting its rapid revenue growth from $170M to $446M. • Drove continued 40%+ year-over-year growth of the Virtual Primary Care business post-acquisition, surpassing $100M in direct-to-consumer revenue. • Scaled and led an 80-person distributed engineering organization across four major hubs (San Francisco, Vancouver, Seattle, Prague) and strengthened leadership depth and delivery predictability by moving to continuous delivery (CI/CD). • Led developer experience (DX) function and rolled out AI-assisted coding tools, code review, and a AI-powered measurement platform. Utilized AI and LLMs to programmatically process received faxes for lab results and orders. • Successfully led the full post-merger integration of PlushCare into Accolade, consolidating teams, platforms, and operating models without disruption and retaining 100% of key engineering talent during integration.
Joined as first executive responsible for Engineering, InfoSec/Compliance, and Cloud Infrastructure/Tooling to build and scale nationwide top direct-to-consumer (D2C) and enterprise virtual primary care and therapy platform reporting directly to the CEO and Board serving over 200k patients with a 90+ NPS score leading to successful acquisition by Accolade for $450M. • Supported revenue growth from $5M to $125M, with 50% margins and positive EBITDA. • Grew team from 4 to about 40 people across 2 main locations. Established Vancouver, BC as second engineering hub besides San Francisco. • Led full rebuild of mobile experience, achieving 4.9 App Store ratings (139k ratings) and Apple/Google feature recognition. • Applied AI throughout the booking process and insurance claim process to improve conversion, average order value, and margin. • Introduced agile development process, scalable infrastructure with zero downtime deployment, and scaled platform from hundreds of appointments per month to tens of thousands.
Joined Jiff as an early engineering leader (≈15 employees) and scaled the organization and digital health platform through rapid growth to acquisition by Castlight Health in 2017 for $135M. Continued to lead and expand the combined mobile and engagement platforms post-acquisition. • Helped Jiff’s growth from $0 to $50M and Castlight’s to $150M ARR and over 240 enterprise customers. • Built and scaled distributed engineering teams (U.S. and India, ~30 engineers) across mobile and web platforms supporting Castlight, Anthem Engage, and Jiff applications. • Drove platform growth to ~50K daily active users, ~400K monthly active users, and 20M covered lives across 80+ Fortune 500 enterprise customers.