01 / Founder experience
Healthcare product and platform engineeringModernizing a large product while strengthening the foundations underneath it.
Context
As a Tech Lead and Senior Engineer, CODEWARD's founder worked on a large US healthcare product in a regulated environment where reliability, maintainability, user experience, and disciplined delivery all mattered.
Challenge
A major modernization effort had to replace an unwieldy mobile foundation, support critical user journeys, and continue serving distinct production applications. The work depended on product decisions, service contracts, rollout strategy, analytics, and coordination across systems.
Outcome
The work created a cleaner, more maintainable product foundation and helped the team move quickly through an ambitious rewrite.
Selected contribution
- Shaped architecture, engineering patterns, and reusable UI foundations for a major rewrite
- Built a multi-app foundation balancing shared capability with product-specific customization
- Partnered with backend teams on GraphQL and REST contracts and resilient data flows
- Connected product goals with platform behavior, technical constraints, and rollout decisions
- Improved testing, CI/CD, release workflows, and development consistency
- Mentored engineers and supported architectural decisions
“We would not have succeeded without him.”Michael Rollins, technology leader and former teammate