Kevin Badinger
Enterprise Systems Architect • Healthcare Technology • AI Engineering Leader
Summary
30 years building production systems. Former CEO who built and ran the industry standard platform for nurse aide credentialing — clients operated on it daily across 35 states for over a decade. Bootstrapped to a successful exit, no outside funding. Lead Architect serving 300+ Fortune 1000 companies. HIPAA-certified. Currently building production AI systems daily using Claude Code as primary development tool.
Experience
CEO & Founder
Resolvent Technologies
Built products and served enterprise clients as a one-person tech organization.
Credentia (subsidiary)
Nurse aide credentialing platform. Industry standard across 35+ states. 1M+ certifications processed. Clients operated on it daily for over a decade. Bootstrapped, profitable from year one, no outside capital. Zero data breaches during entire tenure. Acquired 2023.
Built the platform and ran the operation end-to-end — owned the full company P&L, scaled the company from zero to 500+ people, and managed a separate 30+ person global engineering organization across India, Serbia, and Brazil. Integrated with multiple major payment processors for certification-fee handling under PCI-DSS-compliant controls. Full regulatory compliance: HIPAA, state nursing board, federal testing standards.
StarFloors (Fortune 500 client)
Senior living flooring installation management. Complete workflow from customer contact through installation and billing. Major productivity gains. 5,000+ monthly transactions. 9+ years operational.
Thousand Trails (enterprise client)
Contracting and documentation system for national RV resort operator. End-to-end process management. Systems integration with existing infrastructure.
eRAIL (current)
Rail logistics track & trace platform. Real-time carrier API integration. Geospatial routing on 11GB rail network data. Sub-3 second performance.
Technical Expert Analysis (litigation support)
Technical expert analysis for major technology litigation involving advertising fraud detection systems. Provided technical due diligence and forensic analysis for legal counsel.
Lead Architect
Trintech (Enterprise Financial Software)
- Lead Architect for ReconNET LCM (Lifecycle Management) — banking reconciliation and compliance platform serving 300+ Fortune 1000 financial institutions worldwide. Multi-national deployments.
- Primary Architect of LCM Payments — browser-based account reconciliation and positive pay system on Microsoft .NET for financial institutions, with real-time fraud prevention and payment lifecycle management. Press coverage: Finextra (2008, 2009), Tech Monitor (2008).
- 100x performance improvement on reconciliation products through SQL Server and Oracle tuning.
- Development Manager for Fraud Tracking software — transaction anomaly detection and investigation workflows.
- Multi-state regulatory compliance for unclaimed property/escheatment.
- Technical sales engineering for $500 billion investment company (3-person team).
- Reversed sales win-loss ratio from 0% to 100% in one quarter through GUI redesign.
- Entrepreneur of the Month award.
Software Engineer
Texas Instruments
- Converted IMS mainframe system to distributed object-oriented architecture (Smalltalk/GemStone).
- Semiconductor machine tracking processing 40 transactions/second.
- Supported 12 worldwide customer sites with 24x7 availability.
- Customer Delight Award for production support excellence.
Software Engineer
DSC Communications
- Broadband cross-connect testing systems for telecom infrastructure.
- Embedded Smalltalk on SunOS and pSos operating systems.
- Reduced manufacturing test and installation costs by 50%.
- Director Quarterly Award for Excellence.
Major Platforms Built
Conductor
Nurse aide credentialing platform. 20+ years operational. 1M+ certifications across 35 states. Industry standard platform — clients operated on it daily for over a decade. Multi-portal architecture. 50+ state database integrations. Acquired 2023.
ReconNET LCM (Trintech)
Banking compliance platform for 300+ Fortune 1000 financial institutions. Bank reconciliation. Cash forecasting. Unclaimed property management. Payment lifecycle. Multi-national deployment.
LIFE Languages
Personality assessment platform. 20+ years operational. 7 Biblical Life Languages. Multi-national deployment. Complex grading algorithms.
SCORE
Mobile exam platform. iOS/Android native apps. $200k+ annual savings. Offline exam administration. Instant score delivery.
StarFloors
Senior living operations platform. Major productivity gains. 5,000+ monthly transactions. Deployed to largest US operators. 9+ years operational.
AI Projects
All projects built using Claude Code as primary development environment.
AI Agent Security Audit
Production security audit daemon for OpenClaw AI agent installations. 7 always-on monitors, 20 periodic security sweeps, auto-remediation, HTML reporting. CVE detection, credential exposure scanning, malicious skill detection. Built in response to 135K+ exposed instances and Gartner's "insecure by default" assessment.
HIPAA De-Identification Pipeline
Open-source HIPAA Safe Harbor de-identification system for healthcare AI applications. Automated detection and removal of all 18 PHI identifiers from clinical text per 45 CFR 164.514(b). Enables compliant AI model training and inference on protected health data. Built because most healthcare AI startups skip de-identification until it's a breach.
Guardian
Persistent memory and decision support system. Semantic memory with vector search, goal tracking with causal sequence memory, pattern discovery across decisions. Coordinates Claude, GPT-4, and Gemini based on task type. Self-hosted, privacy-first architecture. Production MCP server integration with Claude Code.
ThisWeekEats
AI meal planning system with Stripe-integrated subscription payment processing. Constrained generation with hard rules for dietary preferences, time limits, favorites tracking. 100+ families testing. Planning time reduced from 2-3 hours to under 10 minutes.
DecisionForge
Multi-LLM debate engine for complex decisions. Evaluation harness with rubric-based scoring, dual-judge automation, regression suites. GitHub Actions CI/CD.
Technical Skills
Languages
C#, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Go, PHP, Java, Swift, Objective-C, SQL, Smalltalk, COBOL
Frameworks
ASP.NET, ASP.NET Core (.NET), React, Next.js, Node.js, Flutter, Ruby on Rails
Databases
SQL Server, PostgreSQL, BigQuery, Firestore, MySQL, Oracle, MongoDB, Redis, SQLite, ChromaDB
Cloud & Infrastructure
AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform (Firestore, Firebase, BigQuery), Vercel, Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions CI/CD, Terraform
AI & ML
Claude Code (primary development tool), Claude API, GPT-4, Gemini, MCP (Model Context Protocol) server development, LlamaIndex, LangChain, Ollama, Vector embeddings, RAG systems, Multi-LLM orchestration, AI evaluation harnesses
Mobile
iOS (Swift, Objective-C), Android (Java, Kotlin), React Native, Flutter
Leadership
Global Engineering Management, Distributed Team Leadership, Engineering Organization Scaling, Engineering P&L Ownership, Budget & Vendor Management, Payment Processing & PCI-DSS Compliance, Regulated-Industry Operations, CEO / Founder / Operator
Key Metrics
Publications & Presentations
- "Isolating Performance Problems" — SQL Server Magazine, August 2000
- "Database Independent Applications with Java" — OOPSLA '99 Conference
- "Fight Trendy Decisions and Use the Best Technology" — Smalltalk Digest, 2003
Awards & Recognition
- Trintech — Entrepreneur of the Month
- DSC Communications — Director Quarterly Award for Excellence
- Texas Instruments — Customer Delight Award for Production Support
Patent
US Patent #13789069 — Image encoding meaningful data into pixel values
Certifications
- HIPAA Certified — Privacy, security, and breach notification rules. 12+ years building and operating HIPAA-compliant systems handling PHI at scale
Current Work
Building AI-powered systems for healthcare and regulated industries. Primary development environment is Claude Code — all current projects built using AI-accelerated development workflows. Focused on production deployment of LLM capabilities with HIPAA compliance, data security, and governance built in from day one.