Eng Mgr @ OptumFounder @ Kaweah TechTulare, CA
I have been writing software for twenty years and leading the people who write it for half of those. By day I run engineering teams at Optum, supporting the referrals and care management features for UHG members. The rest of the time I run Kaweah Tech, the AI and software consultancy I started in 2023 to bring real engineering work to businesses in California's Central Valley. What I am good at is finding where something is not working and fixing it. Sometimes with software. Sometimes with AI. Often by stepping away from the keyboard and fixing the process instead.
A licensure-tracking application for clinical social workers and other therapy professionals.
A RAG-driven fertilizer scheduling tool built for Farmer's Fertilizer.
Replaced a weekly batch provider data pipeline with a Kafka event stream serving 50M+ members.
Work Order Management for R.M. King, the platform that runs cotton picker head rework operations in Fresno and Moultrie.
Ask enough questions in an interview process and single lines from the job description start to make a lot more sense.
Tech hiring obsesses over tool proficiency and spends too little time discovering how good someone is at solving problems.
Some businesses operate in the fringe where supply and demand are out of balance, and they thrive despite what looks like deliberate self-sabotage.