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David Jacobus

Engineering Executive · Healthcare Technology · AI-Enabled Platforms · Federal Programs (VA/DoD)

LinkedIn Azure AZ-900 Email


20+ years building and scaling engineering organizations at the intersection of healthcare technology, regulatory compliance, and modern software delivery. I've led global teams of 250+, owned $35M+ engineering budgets, and shipped AI-enabled platforms in some of the most compliance-sensitive environments in the industry -- HIPAA, SOC 2, ISO 27001, federal VA/DoD programs.

I use this space to build. What's here is hands-on: production tooling, AI-assisted engineering experiments, and a SaaS platform I'm building from scratch.


Active Project

A Business Continuity Planning (BCP) SaaS platform for small and mid-size businesses. Standards-based and composable, anchored to ISO 22301 and NIST SP 800-34.

Stack: FastAPI · SQLAlchemy · PostgreSQL · Alembic · Python
Built with Claude Code. Architecture and API contracts defined before the UI.


AI-Assisted Engineering Practice

Over the past year I've used Claude Code to build and deploy production tooling that addresses real operational gaps in regulated engineering environments. These are not experiments -- they're in active use.

What it does Purpose
Engineering capacity and sprint velocity dashboard Makes throughput visible to leadership; replaces manual status reporting
Production monitoring query library and runbook suite Enables consistent incident response across on-call rotations
Support ticket classifier (Python) Converts support volume into engineering-actionable signal by category and severity
Reusable script library Reduces one-off scripting overhead across Python, Groovy, PowerShell, Bash, and SQL
Engineering management operational tooling Supports 1:1s, performance tracking, and team health monitoring

Establishing AI-assisted engineering as a standard practice -- not a side initiative -- has been one of the more meaningful things I've done as an engineering leader in the past two years.


Career Background

NeuroFlow / BHL (2025 -- Present)
Engineering leadership for a federally regulated behavioral health platform serving 150+ VA Medical Centers and DoD-aligned programs. 1M+ annual behavioral health assessments processed on the platform. Built team structure, sprint process, production support function, and observability practice from the ground up.

RegEd -- VP of Engineering (2023 -- 2025)
Built and deployed an AI/ML compliance engine reviewing 2M+ advertising materials, reducing manual review time by 70%. Led a 250+ person global engineering organization across North America, Europe, and APAC. Owned a $35M engineering budget.

NantHealth -- Senior Director of Engineering (2021 -- 2023)
Healthcare analytics and clinical workflow products. Led Azure cloud migration (40% performance improvement), established centralized DevOps, drove Agile transformation across multiple teams.

SAI360 -- Senior Director of Engineering (2011 -- 2021)
Ten-year tenure from startup through acquisition, supporting 5x revenue growth. Built the CI/CD foundation and engineering culture that scaled through the exit.

Aetna -- Software Engineer (2000 -- 2006)
Enterprise healthcare applications, PHI workflows, payer operations.


Technical Profile

Cloud        Azure (primary) · AWS · AKS · Azure DevOps
Languages    C# · .NET · Python · Node.js · Java · TypeScript · Vue.js
Databases    SQL Server · PostgreSQL · MySQL · Oracle
Tooling      GitHub · Jira · Confluence · Jenkins · Terraform · ARM Templates
Compliance   HIPAA · HITECH · SOC 2 · ISO 27001 · ISO 22301 · HiTrust

Certifications

Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900) · Verify


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