Head of Platform at Proto AI | US Permanent Resident
Staff-level engineering leader building AI-native healthcare platforms, with engineering management experience leading 15+ engineers across multiple teams and owning organization-wide platform architecture.
Building the platform layer for an AI-native healthcare operating system serving patients across all 50 US states. First engineering leadership hire at a seed-stage startup founded by operators from Tempus AI, doc.ai, One Medical, and Stanford Medicine.
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Leading engineering teams across platform, security/compliance (HIPAA, SOC 2), and release infrastructure
Architecting core order management platform with national-scale healthcare service integrations for labs, prescriptions, diagnostics, imaging, and referrals
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Designing multi-agent orchestration systems blending AI agents with event-driven workflows for clinical automation
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Designing and shipping clinician-facing workflows that reduce administrative overhead, collaborating closely with Product and Design to translate clinical needs into intuitive, scalable UX
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Deploying production RAG pipelines, LLM infrastructure (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini), and multi-tenant architectures with RBAC governance
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Mentoring engineers through technical design reviews, architectural guidance, and establishing engineering best practices for a growing organization
Led Tempus's core data infrastructure platform serving 5B+ requests/month across genomic, clinical, and imaging teams with a team of 5 engineers as the de facto team lead.
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Owned platform strategy, architecture, and delivery across 12+ concurrent programs
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Managed and mentored a team of 5 engineers through performance reviews and career development; onboarded 4 new team members without disrupting platform stability
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Drove technical initiatives spanning distributed systems observability, Postgres-to-Spanner migration, BigQuery/Cloud Storage cost optimization, and core data ingestion pipeline improvements
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Shipped TypeScript and Python SDKs, Terraform IAC, and access control systems; triaged 100+ production support requests per quarter with zero incidents
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Built a feature request impact framework to quantify the business cost of under-resourcing, tying engineering capacity to revenue opportunity
Performing the responsibilities of a Tech lead including defining project specifications and technical direction, guiding team members with troubleshooting technical issues, and overseeing software quality, testing, and release cadence
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Expand and strengthen Tempus' event-driven clinical pipeline
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Oversaw the migration of bioinformatics workloads and services to Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
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Utilize serverless technologies, including AWS Batch, SQS, Step Functions, Lambda, and various Google Cloud services like GKE, Pub/Sub, Dataflow, Airflow, and Transfer Service
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Manage and maintain cloud infrastructure using tools such as Terraform, Concourse, Docker, Kubernetes, and Jenkins
Developed new React application to enable dentists to do their job better and faster. The development was being driven with the use of the new React Hooks
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Built supporting backend APIs using Nest.js (Node.js framework), and designed new Entities in Postgres using TypeORM
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Built integrated analytics into the front-end application using tools like Segment and MixPanel to understand how the dentists interact with the web and mobile app
