SafeTower

Chief Architect

Various Companies & Startups

I started working with startups as early as 2007 and eventually progressed as a Fractional CTO where I provide ongoing executive-level technology leadership for startups and growth-stage companies across industries including healthcare, AI, fintech, and consumer SaaS. I specialize in aligning technology with business strategy, building remote engineering teams, launching MVPs, and scaling platforms to support hypergrowth. 

Some of my previous and current client’s include:

Opstack AI (opstack.ai) – Architected AI-powered business optimization platform for franchise owners; oversee hiring, engineering strategy and built a high performing offshore team to build MVP

Planned (joinplanned.com) – Launched a consumer app from inception to production in 3 months by building the team and guiding the company's development initiatives pre and post launch

Grouped (grouped.com) – Led the team while we scaled user base from 20K to 300K+ by spearheading the re-architecture of messaging, payments, and live streaming infrastructure; Built new team from the group up to support growth.

Eyerate (eyerate.com) – Led the team through transition for a product that has 28 million+ weekly users across US and Canada, tripled engineering headcount, launched mobile platform and optimized process.

SeeSnap (seesnap.com) – Defined engineering and product strategy for a deskless worker platform; managed global team across 6 countries.

Fivo.io (fivo.io) – Oversaw development of a cloud-native lab data monitoring platform; led team scaling, architecture, and compliance across EDI and health data integrations.

Impart Wealth  (hivewealth.com) – Re-architected backend to event-driven infrastructure; led MVP delivery and development efforts for AI-powered financial advice platform and mobile app.

Overture Health Care (overturehealthcare.com) – Built team and platform from scratch; delivered real-time patient communication tools and led data aggregation strategy for population health analytics.

Fractional Chief Technology Officer / Technical Advisor

Fivo.io

Chief Technology Officer

SeeSnap.AI

Technical Advisor

EyeRate

Vice President Of Engineering

Flourish FI

SkySlope

Engineering Manager

Hive Wealth

Head of Engineering

Overture Health Care

American Health Care Administrative Services

Senior Software Architect / Software Engineering Manager

Engineering Leader | Fractional CTO | Technology Advisor

A highly-effective Engineering Leader with experience in building cloud-scale applications while managing highly-cohesive teams that consistently delivers above and beyond expectations. 

A servant leader who understand that the only way to lead is to serve others.

Specialties: ASP.NET MVC, .NET Core, Javascript, Angular, Ionic Framework, Apache Cordova, Microsoft SQL Server, C#, VB.NET, Java, SQL, Silverlight, WCF, WPF, Business Intelligence, Analytics, Software Architecture, Enterprise Architecture, Design Patterns, Process Development, Microservices, Service Oriented Architecture, Web Services, Domain Driven Design, Event-driven Architecture, Cloud to Cloud Integration, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Project Management, Requirements Analysis, CRM, ERP, Netsuite, Application Security, Mentoring, Leadership, Project Management, Agile, Scrum, eCommerce

Keith Oliver Rull

Foundant Technologies

Vice President Of Technology

Gym Rocket LLC

Responsible for all aspects of technology at Gym Rocket.
Built and maintained integrations, implementations, features, enhancements, defects.
Worked with integration partners and individual engineering contributors to move the product roadmap forward.

Co-Founder & CTO

 LunchSmarter.com

End-to-end build of a new and exciting ecommerce marketplace...more to come.

LeisureLink Inc.

Responsible for increasing Engineering team velocity and productivity as well as stabilize and scale multiple legacy platforms.  Oversee all aspects of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) for 7 off-shore and on-shore teams of 20+ software engineers.

Vice President of Engineering

Responsible for DevOps/Production Support teams supporting two legacy platforms and coming up-to-speed on a new, modern platform.  Also responsible for IT Infrastructure and Desktop Support
•	Instituted a DevOps culture and standards: 
o	Automated web UI and API testing with GhostInspector and Runscope 
o	PagerDuty for on-call Production Support rotations 
o	Test-driven development standards resulting in continuous integration and continuous deployment across all platforms. 
•	Designed and implemented a ticketing systems across multiple departments for work flow and resource management.
•	Managed a $2+MM capital budget.

Director of DevOps

VacationRoost

Hired to augment existing staff with additional experience and expertise.  Lead multiple Engineering projects from design to implementation to rollout, testing and adoption.  Some of these included: 
•	PCI compliance project aimed at bringing the company into PCI compliance without spending huge amounts of money.  Solution that was built is still in use today and has passed multiple PCI audits. 
•	OTA Supply Gateways (Travel Industry standards) design and implementation – responsible for design and implementation of multiple OTA supply gateways still in use today. 
•	Thought leader, responsible for introduction of multiple new technologies and patterns adopted and still in use today: 
o	Fluent migrations for database migrations 
o	Provider pattern use in many cases (multiple credit card processors, different supply gateways) 
o	Acceptance testing: 
•	Selenium web driver for internal web UIs and automated tools 
•	Runscope for API testing 
•	Ghost Inspector for external web UIs 
•	SpecFlow

Senior Software Engineer

Seamless.com

Promoted internally to support and grow a rapidly growing engineering organization, including front-end teams, back-end teams, mobile teams across iPhone, Android and Blackberry platforms, Quality Assurance and Production Support.  Teams included contractors, mobile developers, on-shore and off-shore teams as well as interns. 
Company thought leader responsible for many technology innovations and initiatives as a member of the Technology Steering Committee. 
Completed the Aramark Advanced Leadership Development Program. 
Presented Technology advances and on-going projects for Aramark Senior Leadership on multiple occasions.  Topics included: mobile platform rollout, public API design and architecture as well as full public rollout methodology.

Director, Software Engineering

Application Architect/Development Manager

Silicon Valley Group, Inc.

Software Engineer

SVG/ASML

United States Marine Corps

Avionics Technician and work center supervisor. Responsible for the maintenance backlog and leadership of a team of Marines keeping planes flying up and down the west coast.

Sergeant United States Marine Corps

Transformational, lean-agile, servant leader with a strong record of leading development and delivery of large scale technology solutions, improving processes and procedures to drive revenue, efficiency, and market share. Agile transformation expertise across all all business disciplines, not just Product and Engineering. 

Motivated technology leader with a solid background in software engineering, quality control and team leadership.  Expertise in web application and infrastructure, Internet technologies, eCommerce, SDLC design and implementation and high performance team building.  Strong strategic and long-range planning abilities; skilled in setting product and technology strategies in B2C and B2B environments. Diverse background covers engineering, innovation, quality assurance and customer support.

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