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David Hale

Senior Software Engineer · Agentic AI & Backend Systems

Lebanon, TN (Remote)

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Senior engineer with 10+ years building production software, including healthcare SaaS and clinical data platforms. Builds agentic workflows with Strands Agents and Amazon Bedrock, using retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) to ground model responses in healthcare data. Leads architecture, integrations, and delivery across distributed teams.

Technical skills

Agentic AI
  • Strands Agents
  • Amazon Bedrock (model invocation, Knowledge Bases)
  • RAG
  • Prompt engineering
  • Claude
  • Gemini
  • Ollama
  • Open-source LLMs
AI-assisted development
  • Codex
  • Cursor
  • GitHub Copilot
Backend and cloud
  • Node.js
  • TypeScript
  • Clojure
  • GraphQL
  • REST
  • PostgreSQL
  • ETL
  • AWS Lambda
  • S3
  • EKS
  • ECS
  • Docker
  • Terraform
  • CI/CD
Clinical integrations and frontend
  • FHIR
  • HL7
  • CDS Hooks
  • Enterprise APIs
  • React
  • Remix
  • Angular

Experience

  1. Jan 2026 – Present

    Aeroflow Health

    Senior Backend Engineer

    • Build and orchestrate healthcare agents with Strands Agents and Amazon Bedrock. Use Bedrock Knowledge Bases for retrieval over structured healthcare data.
    • Design prompts to surface actionable information from unstructured clinical data and integrate the workflows into operational backend services.

  2. Aug 2024 – Dec 2025

    Care Access

    Senior Software Engineer

    • Led 6+ engineers and contractors across Care Console, Member Portal, and Member Services Portal. Owned release schedules and delivery from design through production.
    • Improved release cadence by roughly 25-50% by standardizing team routines and reducing rework through shorter feedback loops.

  3. Feb 2022 – Aug 2024

    OneStudyTeam (Reify Health)

    Senior Software Engineer

    • Shipped self-service user provisioning that increased site onboarding speed by 32%. Built a protocol designer for clinical research workflows and contributed to the launch of Site Financials.
    • Developed TypeScript GraphQL code generation patterns adopted across multiple squads and mentored junior engineers.

  4. Aug 2021 – Feb 2022

    Kanso Software (HDS Doorways)

    Senior Software Engineer

    • Secured leadership support for an AngularJS-to-Angular migration and led the frontend team through implementation.

  5. Feb 2020 – Sep 2021

    EvidenceCare

    Senior SDE / SDE II

    • Designed HL7 FHIR and CDS Hooks integrations across 7-10 hospital systems. Built analytics to measure client ROI and feature flags to support staged enterprise rollouts.

  6. Feb 2019 – Feb 2020

    Lonely Planet

    Software Developer in Test

    • Built a shared test automation monorepo, a Python and Kibana migration dashboard, and Puppeteer and Lighthouse audit tooling.

Education

Trevecca Nazarene University · BS, Information Technology · 2006 – 2011

The best way to reach me is on LinkedIn.