PROJ / CLI
Cliniq.
TypeScriptNext.jsNode.jsAzure OCR
● shippedOpen to rolesReplies in 24hNashville
Philopateer Shenouda · Software Engineer / PlatformPlatform engineering
across the stack.
Full-stack engineer specializing in platform and cloud. Currently leading a Next.js + AWS rebuild at Wesley Financial Group, projected $160K+ in annual platform savings. Stack: TypeScript, AWS, Next.js, NestJS, FastAPI. Open to platform, infrastructure, and full-stack roles. Full-time or contract.
FieldSoftware · Systems · PlatformsLIVE
FrontendBackendCloudDataCI / CDUptimeSecuritySystemscorePhilopateer
/ 01 · ExperienceTwo roles. Both
Two roles. Both
shipped end to end.
Currently leading a Next.js + AWS platform rebuild at Wesley Financial. 20,000+ peak users, projected $160K+ annual savings. Before that: wildfire telemetry pipelines for a NASA-Ames drone trajectory planner on KBR contract.
NowJuly 2025 to Present
Software Engineer, Platform
Wesley Financial GroupFranklin, TN
- / 01Led re-architecture of client platform supporting 20,000+ peak users. Replaced Titan vendor portal with custom Next.js + AWS + Vercel system. Projected $160K+ annual savings.
- / 02Migrated authentication from Better Auth to AWS Cognito Hosted UI (Authorization Code + PKCE).
- / 03Designed three-AWS-account environment isolation (dev / staging / production) with Vercel and AWS OIDC federation. Removed static credentials from runtime.
- / 04Built async document processing pipeline (Textract OCR with handwriting, Comprehend PII detection, pdf-lib redaction, Salesforce ContentVersion upload). Reduced manual case-management time 80%+, saving hundreds of hours per month across the client base. Validated against a 333-document real-client corpus.
- / 05Built internal IT-support dashboard for first-line triage of portal issues before engineering escalation.
- / 06Authored operations runbook with a 99.5% availability SLA, sub-5min MTTD, and sub-4hr MTTR targets.
June 2024 to Dec 2024
Technical Intern, Software Engineering
KBRRemote · NASA Ames Research contract
- / 01Wrote a microservice that pulled wildfire telemetry (wind, hotspots, terrain) and served it via API to the trajectory planner.
- / 02Built 2D visualizations with Plots.jl and 3D visualizations with CesiumJS to accelerate analysis and understanding.
- / 03Shipped against NASA-aligned guidelines: code reviews, automated tests, and full documentation.
20K+Peak users on the platform
$160K+Projected annual savings
80%+Manual processing reduced
333 docsReal-client validation corpus
/ 02 · Selected projectsSix projects.
Six projects.
All shipped.
Health-tech mostly. Five hackathon wins. One paying SaaS at cliniq.care. Each built end to end. Architecture, infra, UX.
PROJ / PAT
Billing.
Next.jsAzure OCRPythonOpenAI
● shippedHealth-tech tool · 1st place HackMT 2024
Patient Billing Helper
A patient-facing helper that explains medical bills in plain language. OCRs the bill, parses line items against payer data, and answers "why am I being charged this?" before patients have to call the office.
Walkthrough on request
PROJ / CLI
RAG.
PythonVector searchOpenAIReact
● shippedClinical workflow · 1st place TNHIMSS 2023
Clinical RAG Assistant
A retrieval-augmented assistant that chat-searches patient charts and visit notes so clinicians can pull what they need without scrolling through EHR tabs. Demoed live to a hospital-systems audience.
Walkthrough on request
PROJ / AI
Caller.
TwilioAzure SpeechOpenAINode.js
● shippedVoice agent · Hacker's Choice HackMT 2025
AI Patient Check-in Caller
An AI agent that handles patient check-in calls end-to-end: collects intake answers, confirms appointments, and writes back to the chart. Real telephony, real conversation, no chatbot screen.
Walkthrough on request
PROJ / ECH
EchoURL.
TypeScriptEdge runtimeKVNext.js
● shippedSide project · Link infrastructure
EchoURL
A fast, no-account link tool. Built it to learn how the boring parts (caching, abuse prevention, analytics) hold up under real traffic. Existing options were bloated or sketchy.
PROJ / AST
Astral.
NestJSWebSocketsReact NativeNode.js
● shippedReal-time messaging · Side project
Astral Chat
A lightweight real-time messaging app with authenticated chat, delivery markers, and a mobile-ready UI. Built around WebSocket gateways and a NestJS backend with React Native on top.
/ 03 · ToolkitThe stack
The stack
I ship in.
Deepest in TypeScript, AWS, and Next.js. Comfortable everywhere else. New tools picked up fast when work demands it.
/ 01Languages
- TypeScript
- JavaScript
- Python
- SQL
- Scala
/ 02Frontend
- Next.js
- React
- Tailwind CSS
- TanStack Query
- Zustand
/ 03Backend
- Node.js
- NestJS
- FastAPI
- PostgreSQL
- Drizzle ORM
/ 04Cloud / AWS
- Lambda
- RDS
- S3
- SQS
- SNS
- Cognito
- IAM
- Secrets Manager
- Textract
- Comprehend
- SES
- CloudWatch
- SST
/ 05Salesforce
- SOQL
- jsforce
- ContentVersion
- Connected Apps
/ 06Tools
- Git
- GitHub Actions
- Biome
- Bun
- Docker
- OpenAI API
- Twilio
/ 04 · RecognitionFive wins.
Five wins.
All shipped in 36 hours.
Hackathon record: 5 placed, mostly health-tech. Real demos, not slide decks.
1stPlace
HackMT 2024
Patient billing helper using Next.js, Azure OCR, and Python. Streamlined billing questions and reduced back and forth between patients and staff.
1stPlace
TNHIMSS 2023
RAG assistant that chat-searches patient data and visit notes to speed up clinical documentation workflows.
2ndPlace
HackMT 2026
Cliniq: medication-safety platform using Azure OCR and OpenAI to surface drug-interaction risks in seconds.
HCHacker's Choice
HackMT 2025
AI patient check-in caller using Twilio, Azure Speech Recognition, Azure Text-to-Speech, and OpenAI orchestrating a real phone conversation.
★Sponsor Award
VandyHacks 2023
Lightweight AI patient check-in caller. The earliest cut of the system that later won Hacker's Choice at HackMT 2025.
/ 05 · BackgroundEducation &
Education &
engagements.
Studied where business meets systems. Outside paid work, ongoing volunteer build for a nonprofit.
EducationBachelor of Business Administration
Middle Tennessee State University
Bachelor of Business Administration
Information Systems & Analytics
Middle Tennessee State UniversityThe fork between business and engineering. Useful when you're the engineer translating between operations leadership and the codebase.
AlsoOngoing volunteer
Details on request
Ongoing volunteer
software work
Details on requestI keep a long-running side commitment building and maintaining web infrastructure for a nonprofit. Happy to walk through the work in conversation.
/ 07 · ContactHiring, or
Hiring, or
want to chat?
Drop a note. Mention the role and the timeline. Reply within a day.
Let's talk shop.
Open to platform, infrastructure, and full-stack roles. Full-time, contract, or 20-min intro.whichever's quickest.
PhilopateerGreater Nashville · Replies in 24h
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