Engineer #1 working on a D2C pharmaceuticals platform, collaborated on product and worked across the stack to build:
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Core e-commerce workflows, built a flexible system to generate and complete telehealth appointments as part of the checkout flow.
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Pharmacy fulfillment system, built a highly automated system allowing clinicians and pharmacists to complete orders.
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Built systems for automatically substituting drug allergies, managing subscriptions for recurring drugs, generating PDF prescriptions, capturing payment via Stripe, shipping orders via FedEx/Canada Post, and reconciliation of P/L with insurance companies.
I also led a distributed team of 2-3 engineers and 1 QA analyst.
Took a leave of absence from Sept. 2024 - Dec. 2024 after hiring the first iteration of our team, came back to grow and hire the second iteration, then shifted to an advisory role after May 2025.
Ingestion: Java, etcd, Kafka, Python, Distributed Systems
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Overhauled a critical service (3m+ requests/day) to serve data pipeline configurations as a graph, enabling product teams to build their own pipelines. Used Java, etcd, and Kafka. Executed phased rollout to all production customers.
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Developed a framework for automatically generating regression tests and mocking APIs for a critical component that collects cloud configurations. Implemented using Python with support for Oracle Cloud.
