Brighter Tunnel
Lead Software Engineer
Remote · Mar 2023 – Present
Founding lead engineer shipping healthcare AI, agentic LLM pipelines, and multi-tenant SaaS products.

Lead Software Engineer
Minneapolis, MN · Open to SF / NYC
Software engineer with 8 years building production systems across healthcare, logistics, and AI-native products. Deep experience designing microservices, REST and GraphQL APIs, distributed systems, and data pipelines on AWS. Strong healthcare-data domain background (claims, eligibility, CPT/ICD codes, benefit plans). Builds with agentic coding tools daily.
Lead Software Engineer
Remote · Mar 2023 – Present
Founding lead engineer shipping healthcare AI, agentic LLM pipelines, and multi-tenant SaaS products.
Software Engineer
Minneapolis, MN · Jan 2022 – Mar 2023
Built event-driven freight rerouting and real-time terminal ops dashboards on AWS serverless.
Software Engineer 2
San Francisco, CA · May 2018 – Oct 2021
Led benefit-plans microservices migration and medical-code automation for 100+ enterprise clients.
Interview Engineer
Remote · 2022 – 2025
Conducted 1,000+ technical interviews for PayPal, Palantir, The New York Times, Lyft, and others.
Coding Instructor
San Francisco, CA · 2019 – 2020
Volunteer coding instructor teaching programming fundamentals to underserved youth.
Built and shipped an AI and rules engine that reads clinical notes, extracts diagnoses and procedures, matches CPT and ICD-10 against payer rules (deterministic, not LLM-guessed), validates policy criteria, and drafts grounded prior-auth letters.
Architected an agentic multi-stage pipeline that transcribes interview audio and orchestrates LLMs to produce edited book drafts.
Built a multi-tenant learning management platform with AI-assisted lesson planning, grading, and summarization.
Built initial software extracting real-time data from charging stations (OCPP protocol) into multi-tenant dashboards.
Built an event-driven Python service that reroutes trucks to alternate terminals in real time when a terminal goes down.
Built a full-stack app capturing real-time terminal data (shipments, pallets, problem-solving cases) for live operational visibility.
Led the Plans and Benefits domain during a monolith-to-microservices migration; built two Java Spring Boot services (120+ API endpoints) plus a Node.js parsing layer integrating GraphQL, GitHub, and Airtable APIs.
Built Python automation on Kubernetes CronJob that detected ICD/CPT code changes and auto-updated the source of truth, replacing a manual multi-API workflow; added PostgreSQL audit trail with Datadog and Prometheus monitoring.
University of Minnesota – Twin Cities
B.S. Computer Science