Led the engineering transition for a healthcare technology company moving from overseas contractors to US-based full-time employees, while simultaneously delivering critical infrastructure and product improvements.
Role
Transitional Engineering Lead
Challenge
InSite Health needed to transition away from overseas contractors to US-based full-time employees while maintaining product momentum and addressing critical infrastructure needs.
Contributions
- Architecture Review: Conducted deep review of existing infrastructure and product, delivering a comprehensive assessment report with recommendations
- Roadmap Analysis: Analyzed product roadmap including size estimations and prioritization to guide hiring and development decisions
- Hiring Process Design: Designed and deployed new hire interviews and onboarding procedures, then conducted technical interviews and assessments
- EMR Migration: Wrote screen-scraping export tools to migrate data between EMR systems
- AWS Infrastructure: Designed, built, and deployed initial AWS infrastructure using CDK, migrating from previous cloud vendor
- Security Improvements: Addressed security tasks including forced TLS/HTTPS, session timeout enforcement, and branch protection rules
Results
Successfully transitioned the engineering organization while delivering architecture review, roadmap analysis, hiring infrastructure, EMR migration tooling, and new AWS infrastructure—all within a 2-month engagement.
Technologies
- AWS (CDK, RDS, infrastructure design)
- Python (screen scraping, data migration)
- Healthcare EMR systems
- Technical interview design
