I was the founding CTO at Luxxera, a healthcare marketplace that connects patients with clinics abroad. I built the engineering team from zero, and handed off day-to-day delivery to the team I hired.
Now I'm looking to lead an engineering team inside a larger product organization. Somewhere the habits of a lean startup, small teams and high ownership, compound at bigger scale.
For most people it's coffee. For me it's chocolate milk. At least two glasses a day. It's the fuel behind everything I build.
- 💼 Open to Engineering Manager, Senior EM, and Head of Engineering roles
- 📝 Still figuring out LinkedIn
I build and run engineering teams while staying in the code.
At Luxxera I hired four engineers onto a globally distributed team and owned hiring end to end. I set the delivery lifecycle, the coding standards, and the review norms. The result was a three-sided healthcare marketplace built to prepare for GDPR and HIPAA-equivalent standards on AWS.
Before that I ran a development agency for nearly seven years, so I've watched a lot of ideas go from a napkin to production. I'm a pragmatic builder who listens first, then executes. I focus on what matters and cut through the noise.
8+ years of hands-on development. I still write code every week, and I think that's exactly what a good EM does.
| Role | Company | Focus |
|---|---|---|
| Co-Founder & CTO | Luxxera | Built the engineering function from zero. Hired the engineers, set delivery and review norms, shipped a healthcare marketplace |
| Founder | Alowh | Development agency for nearly seven years. 20+ clients across nonprofit, education, healthcare, and government, including U.S. government contracts |
| ML Scientist | Ellucian | Built a production prediction model behind a scheduling product the State of Georgia adopted |
| Lead Developer | Southern Virginia University | Grew from engineer to lead. Internal dashboard cut content-publishing turnaround from days to under a day. Migrated sites to Vue and led cloud migrations |
| Senior Web Developer | WSB | Full-stack development |
- 🏥 Luxxera · Healthcare marketplace for finding vetted clinics abroad
- 🎨 Alowh · Development agency portfolio
- 🏠 Real Estate Lubbock · Real estate platform
- 💒 WedAhead · Wedding planning platform
- 🧬 True DNA Story · DNA ancestry platform
- BizBlend · Balancing Hustle and Health
- The Iferia Techcast · From Code to CTO
- AIBiZ · AI in Legacy Codebases
🎮 Gaming • 📚 Reading • 🧗 Rock Climbing • 🏂 Snowboarding •
Hiring an engineering leader? Need a speaker? Let's talk or email hayesfrank28@gmail.com.