I was an occupational therapist before I was an engineer. The work hasn’t changed much. I look at the problem, understand the person, and find the right fit even if it isn’t glamorous.
I’m in Boulder, building software for healthtech and looking for product, forward-deployed, design, or founding engineer roles at companies doing serious work in the space.
Solo studio.
A strength training app for older adults and gym newcomers, in limited release at Ironworks gym in Boulder. Built for people (like my mom) who feel intimidated by gyms. Designed in person with the members who use it. Stack is Next.js, Go, Postgres, Redis, K8s on a self-hosted cluster.
Declarative LLM orchestration. Multi-agent pipelines, scheduled and reactive triggers, all defined in YAML. Like GitHub Actions for agentic coding. I use it daily across my projects. Currently working on a Bring Your Own Agent (BYOA) refactor.
A documentation and learning tool for OT students and practitioners. Focused on building clinical competency and streamlining niche documents like letters of medical necessity, DME orders, and supervisory notes. Real therapists tested several prototypes in the field. The product worked; the market wasn’t there at the price OTs could pay, so I shut it down rather than force it.
Before Aptx Health, I was at Freewave Technologies working on IoT/embedded systems. In three years I went from junior Go engineer to devops to quality engineering lead, running a team of six. I ran our standups and facilitated value stream mapping with stakeholders in manufacturing and customer support, building out a new automated pipeline that validated hardware (connections, boards, RF), firmware, and the containerized application stack and its configuration. Got unprompted positive feedback from the team on the leadership work. I was also the person digging into pesky cross-compiler and Yocto problems no one else wanted to touch.
Before engineering, I was an occupational therapist. Brain injury rehab, senior living, inpatient rehabilitation hospitals, custom assistive technology. I built devices for individual patients from PVC, aluminum, fabric, and 3D-printed parts, usually with families, care teams, and community volunteers in the loop.
At VCU, a classmate and I built a custom computer station with head tracking for a man with quadriplegia. It changed how he could connect with people and advocate for himself. He later used it to call for help during a medical emergency.
Later, I took on custom device work for clients with brain injury and stroke. Not part of the standard scope, just things people needed that nobody else was going to make. The leg-protector pictured below is one of those. The client had hypersensitivity that made every wheelchair bump painful and needed an attachment that would shield his lower legs without limiting movement. I built two PVC prototypes for fit, then finished with an aluminum frame, a clamping mechanism that mounted to his chair, and a fabric cover made by a volunteer I found through the local makerspace. He still uses it years later.
Outside of work: blacksmithing classes, improv, a men’s group I help facilitate in Boulder, and a 3D printer that stays busier than it strictly needs to.
May 2026 · Soft-launching Ripit at Ironworks in Boulder. Working on agent-minder in between, and reading every healthtech founding-engineer post I can find.