Curriculum Vitae

Jared Forth — Software Engineering Manager, Chicago, IL

Engineering manager and data engineer with 8+ years building software, most recently data pipelines, healthcare integrations, and reliable platforms in Python, SQL, Databricks, and AWS. I care about healthy teams and humane, high-quality software.

Highlights

Manage 5 engineers at DME Flow while still shipping code: 130+ merged pull requests since becoming manager.
Raised web app test coverage from 2% to 99% and fixed 3 access-control vulnerabilities.
Found and fixed a bug that silently lost patient notes on save (8.3% of one client's notes).
Built a Databricks lakehouse and Brightree/Bonafide integration; onboarded 6 new clients in 2026.
Migrated 35 client dashboards to Databricks AI/BI and 4 client environments to a new workspace.

Skills

Languages: Python, SQL, TypeScript, JavaScript, Rust, PHP, Bash
Data & Cloud: Databricks, Delta Lake, Spark SQL, Snowflake, AWS (Lambda, S3, Secrets Manager), GCP, Firebase, ETL pipelines, REST APIs, GraphQL
Frameworks: SvelteKit, Angular, Vue.js, Pydantic, Playwright, Puppeteer
Tools & Practice: Git, GitHub Actions, Docker, Datadog, Jira, pytest, Jest, Cypress, CI/CD, Agile

Experience

Engineering Manager — DME Flow

Pensacola, FL (Remote) · December 2025 – Present

I manage a team of 5 software engineers building healthcare workflow automation for durable medical equipment (DME) suppliers, owning data integrations and operational reliability. I also own the Client Solutions function and serve as technical lead for client rollouts, and I stay hands-on: 130+ merged pull requests to the workflow engine and its services since the promotion.

Reliability and data integrity

Fixed patient notes being reported as saved but never written (8.3% of one client's notes): traced the bug to a Lambda timeout re-invoking long-running jobs, and added save verification across 3 repositories.
Root-caused a silent 6-hour scheduler outage, where a database deadlock killed the scheduler thread while health checks stayed green; added alarms and EC2 auto-recovery after later container failures.
Traced 226,892 orphan rows (99.7% of a Delta table) to a stale merge-key formula.
Traced workflow-server crashes under load to unbounded Playwright Chromium concurrency exhausting threads.
Fixed an eligibility pipeline where every request deactivation silently did nothing, by replacing a random key with the deterministic hash used in the Databricks gold table.
Fixed a Delta Lake sync that loaded 1.65 million rows (~1 GB) per page to return 792; each sync now reads the table once instead of four times, and pagination no longer skips or repeats rows.

Platform and migrations

Cut 4 client environments over to a new Databricks workspace, moving every Asset Bundle deployment.
Migrated 35 client dashboards from AWS QuickSight to Databricks AI/BI as code, with dashboard-scoped embed tokens, then retired QuickSight.
Moved 12 AWS security-group rules and API Gateway policies to a new egress IP a week before the old address was retired, adding the new rules before removing the old so no traffic dropped.
Shipped patient- and item-level resupply scheduling to replace sales-order templates in the EHR, writing to MySQL and S3 in one transaction for the workflow engine to pick up.

Security

Fixed 3 access-control vulnerabilities: a cross-organization data leak, an insecure direct object reference on dashboard embeds, and a privilege escalation.
Led the response to a secret-exposure alert: purged Git history; rotated cloud, database, and API keys; and moved EC2 instances to IAM role-based access.
Wrote the HIPAA traceability hardening roadmap: client-scoped service accounts, no plaintext keys on disk, and guards against cross-client writes.

Quality and engineering practice

Raised web app test coverage from 2% to 99% (133 to 1,200+ tests) and Cloud Functions coverage from 71% to 99%, turning about 60 known bugs into regression tests.
Built Claude agent triage for Jira Service Management support tickets, and replaced a third-party AI reviewer with a shared Claude PR-review skill.
Moved the team from a single reviewer to peer PR review, and trained engineers to run their own workflow deployments.
Set up support triage with response-time targets, a daily support review, an on-call rotation, and Datadog monitoring and runbooks.
Added production QA alerts in Databricks that flag records that should never exist.

Client delivery

Onboarded 6 new clients in 2026, taking 4 from kickoff to first live automation in 6 to 11 weeks, and standardized the rollout with a deployment document template.
Onboarded an enterprise client in 3 months: incremental Snowflake-to-Databricks ingestion, validation rules with fuzzy matching, automated QA that ships or holds orders in Brightree on a 15-minute cadence (30 to 60 runs a day), and accounts-receivable and KPI reporting.
Delivered a contracted KPI dashboard pack with 4 of 5 dashboards live the day the agreement was signed.
Hired and onboarded 4 team members, and organized and presented a backend engineering lunch-and-learn.

Python, Databricks, SQL, TypeScript, AWS

Lead Software Engineer — DME Flow

Pensacola, FL (Remote) · January 2024 – December 2025

Integrations and automation

Led integration of the Brightree and Bonafide healthcare systems: a typed Python API client, workflow engine actions, and a daily sync of patients, insurance, physicians, orders, documents, and payments, live in 3 weeks.
Took a Playwright browser-automation bot from proof of concept to production for Brightree operations that lack an API (WIP-state moves, payments, item updates, drop ships), with retries, error screenshots, and save verification, across about 100 pull requests over 18 months.
Extended a Turing-complete workflow language and its Python execution engine with new actions: scalar extraction, threaded iteration, record updates, activity tasks, and nested sub-workflows.
Compared AWS Textract, Bedrock, and Google Gemini for extracting signatures, dates, and insurance data from scanned medical documents.
Ran weekly implementation calls with 3 enterprise clients.

Data platform

Built a Databricks medallion lakehouse: Delta Lake merges with hash-based change detection, deployed as Asset Bundles through GitHub Actions, feeding write-backs for multiple clients.
Built event-driven S3 ingestion of spreadsheet exports so operations staff can change QA rules, KPI settings, and worklist assignments without code changes.

Web app, security, and delivery

Built the customer web app from scratch: SvelteKit, TypeScript, Firebase, Google and Microsoft SSO, MFA, MySQL, AWS Lambda, and per-client embedded analytics.
Hardened public API endpoints (stack-trace leaks, injection checks) ahead of a third-party penetration test that returned 0 findings.
Led security and compliance work: a vendor security questionnaire, a network and vulnerability audit of API Gateway, Lambda, EC2, and databases, GuardDuty threat detection, and copyleft license cleanup.
Set up engineering guardrails across repositories: release-please versioning, CI auto-deploy of workflow definitions, GitGuardian secret scanning in pre-commit, CODEOWNERS, and a QA checklist PR template.

SecureCompliance (sister company)

Built a FinCEN beneficial-ownership e-filing SaaS: direct API filing with XML validation for initial, correction, update, and exemption reports, and a Pub/Sub status checker that stores results and transcripts.
Wrote a Puppeteer bot that files through FinCEN's web form, behind a feature flag that switches between API and bot without a deploy.
Built Stripe subscription billing end to end: saved payment methods, org-level billing, coupons, ACH, automatic tax, and daily quantity updates driven by Firestore listeners.
Redesigned the Firestore data model for large organizations with listener-maintained collections, server-side pagination, and indexed queries.
Set up delivery from day one: Firebase emulators, semantic-release, GitHub Actions deploys with gated production, Cypress and Jest, Sentry, and Firestore backups to S3.

Python, Databricks, SQL, TypeScript, AWS, Firebase

Software Engineer II — Output

Los Angeles, CA (Remote) · February 2023 – January 2024

I worked on the team responsible for all of Output's web services.

Led the separation of subscription checkout from the WordPress monolith into its own application, the first service extracted; its SSH build-and-deploy process and Nginx setup set the pattern for the services that followed.
Co-authored the shared login package that replaced WordPress logins with JWT-based logins across Output's newer web apps.
Led the "Upgrade with a Coupon" and "Painted Door" epics; built a working Upgrade prototype in 2 days to surface UX and edge-case issues before full development.
Built 3 proofs of concept on different GCP products to replace the WordPress API endpoints that proxied requests to Recurly.
Built the beta product page for Co-Producer, Output's first AI product, in about a day, plus the audio player cards for its landing page and app.
Contributed to the account pages, Output Creator, and Tiers V2 and V3, and cleared the account-page bugs blocking testing.

TypeScript, Vue.js, Vite, JWT, GCP, Nginx

Software Engineer I — Output

Los Angeles, CA (Remote) · January 2022 – February 2023

I worked on the team responsible for subscription checkout for Output's flagship products.

Took ownership of subscription checkout after its senior engineer left, then delivered 3 concurrent initiatives: finishing Checkout V2, seamless Fall Sale discounts, and Freemium checkout.
Built the subscription coupon system and a feature-flag system for sale discounts.
Automated local development environment setup with Bash scripts, making onboarding nearly turnkey.
Started the checkout codebase's migration to TypeScript and its unit test suite.

TypeScript, Vue.js, PHP, WordPress, Bash

Software Developer — RivalMind

St. Charles, IL · October 2018 – January 2022

Built full-stack applications and e-commerce sites for agency clients.
Led a data-harvesting project, rewriting a Node.js/Puppeteer scraper in Rust, with a REST API, relational database, and microservices.

TypeScript, JavaScript, SQL, PHP, Go, Rust

Software Developer — TRC Solutions

Burr Ridge, IL · October 2017 – October 2018

Built internal automation software that raised employee productivity 5x.
Maintained a LAMP-stack application and server, added features, and optimized it for mobile.

Linux, Bash, PHP, C# & .NET, Python

Projects

Open source libraries, web tools, and Chrome extensions are on GitHub. Highlights:

webp — WebP image conversion library, maintained since 2019. Rust
lilypond-rs — Rust wrapper and types for GNU LilyPond. Rust
clean_url — Finds the version of a URL that returns a 2xx response. Rust

Education

Bachelor of Science in Computer Information Systems — Fort Hays State University

2016 – 2019 · Summa Cum Laude · GPA 3.95/4.0

Certifications

Certificate of HIPAA Workforce Proficiency (CHWP) — Compliancy Group
Atlassian Agile Project Management Professional Certificate