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.
A 72-hour taste of Fable 5 before the pull-back left me unwilling to push work forward with lesser models.
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.