Candidate ID: #20
Location: New York, NY

EMPLOYMENT SUMMARY

• Current/Most Recent: ~2 years (Jul. 2024 – Mar. 2026) as CTO of Apploi, a growth-stage workforce management SaaS company – Owned product and engineering end-to-end, leading a 50+ person org of engineers, designers, and product managers across a multi-product platform
• Past: 25+ years of technology leadership including founding CTO roles at Returnalyze (retail analytics) and connectRN (on-demand nursing), VP Engineering at LiveData, and 9+ years as CTO/VP Engineering at HealthcareSource – Has scaled teams from a single developer to 90+ across onshore/offshore locations in healthcare tech, workforce management, e-commerce, and big data analytics

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

• AI Product Delivery – Shipped Apploi’s first tranche of AI features (built on AWS Bedrock, Llama, and Claude) while directing a full architectural and UX uplift of a high-traffic production platform
• Zero-to-One Platform Builder – As founding CTO of Returnalyze, stood up the team and built a retail analytics platform from scratch, using AI/ML, NLP, and generative AI to help the world’s largest retailers analyze billions of order and returns transactions
• Startup Scaling – Grew connectRN from one developer to a 25-person onshore/offshore engineering team, delivering web and mobile platforms with early ML capabilities (React, React Native, Golang, TensorFlow, AWS)
• Enterprise Replatforming – At HealthcareSource, built and led a 90+ person engineering org across six locations, brought a fully replatformed flagship SaaS product to market, and cut page response times to under one second for 90%+ of requests