August AI
Founding EngineerResponsible for building and scaling the company's core consumer health app from 0 to 1 million downloads, working across mobile, backend, web, cloud infrastructure, and AI-service integrations.
- Architected and shipped core product experiences across mobile and web, AI chat, nutrition and meal tracking, EHR integration, onboarding, and notifications, driving ~51% month-1 retention and a durable 24% 12-month plateau across a 1M+ user base, well above typical consumer-app benchmarks.
- Owned cloud security, infrastructure, and end-to-end deployment across AWS and Azure to healthcare-grade (SOC 2 / HIPAA-ready) standards, architecting authentication, environment isolation, rate-limiting, secrets management, and full-stack observability, and building the CI/CD pipelines that shipped the platform's production microservices from commit to production.
- Recruited, mentored, and managed a 3 to 4 person frontend team, scaling engineering from founder-led development into a structured product-engineering function across mobile and web, establishing the processes, code standards, and review culture that let the team ship quickly and onboard new hires with minimal ramp-up.
- Built and scaled the company's web growth engine, landing pages, health library, content infrastructure, and web app surfaces serving 500K+ monthly visits, engineered for SEO, fast Core Web Vitals (sub-2s mobile LCP, TTFB under 400ms), localization across 37+ languages, and conversion-quality UX.