Jake L. Muller
Principal Software Engineer at Garnet Health · Slate Hill, New York · Reports to the CIO · Chair, Software Developer Committee
Scope
- Reports to
- Chief Information Officer and SVP
- Chairs
- Software Developer Committee & AI Governance Committee
- Leads
- Web and native mobile engineers
- Releases
- 10+ per year
- Owns
- Internal platform portfolio
- Decides
- Build versus buy
- Experience
- 10 years
- Recognition
- DNV designation
Direct
Engineering to C-suite
Mentoring and direction
Web, iOS, Android
Architecture through operations
Costed against real quotes
Healthcare and enterprise
External survey
Experience
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Principal Software Engineer
Garnet Health · Middletown / Goshen, NY
December 2024 to present
Technical strategy and system architecture for enterprise-wide digital transformation, reporting to the Chief Information Officer.
- Chair the Software Developer Committee, bridging engineering and the C-suite. Present architectural roadmaps, demonstrate beta releases, and align sprint goals to hospital operational KPIs.
- Own the internal platform portfolio end to end: architecture, build-versus-buy recommendation, delivery, and the operational life of each system after launch.
- Mentor and direct the web and native mobile engineers through more than ten production releases in a single year, across web, iOS, and Android.
- Architecting a proprietary vendor contract management platform to replace legacy third-party software, projecting six figures in immediate operating expenditure reduction.
- Engineered a dynamic performance evaluation engine: a digitised job description builder, an automated scoring algorithm, and a multi-tier approval routing matrix serving thousands of employees.
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Senior Software Engineer
Garnet Health · Middletown / Goshen, NY
December 2021 to December 2024
Led the engineering team through the hospital's first wave of in-house clinical and operational platforms.
- Architected and launched a real-time electronic hand hygiene capture system, elevating hospital-wide clinical safety metrics and securing a compliance designation from DNV.
- Directed database refactoring and query optimisation against live subscriber data, protecting patient records through updates with no service interruption.
- Directed the integration of external vendor APIs into the internal secure network, establishing data pipelines that optimised resource utilisation and ITSM workflows.
- Mentored and directed mobile and web engineering teams through more than ten production releases in a single year, including the flagship iOS application and an on-call routing platform.
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Software Engineer
Garnet Health · Middletown / Goshen, NY
December 2019 to December 2021
Built the foundation the later platforms were assembled on.
- Developed a hospital-wide digital faxing application with dynamic PDF rendering and an integrated SQL dashboard, removing a paper workflow.
- Engineered a policy and procedure management application with a transactional checkout system preventing concurrent editing conflicts across departments.
- Built and scaled the company-wide intranet portal on ASP.NET MVC, SQL Server, and custom JavaScript, establishing the architecture for secure internal file sharing.
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Senior Software Developer
Live Technology · Tuxedo Park, NY
March 2018 to December 2019
Promoted from Software Developer within three months on architectural impact. Fortune 500 client delivery.
- Analysed bottlenecked data pipelines and engineered proprietary search algorithms, reducing average request time by over 68 percent, from roughly 450ms to 125ms.
- Designed distributed client and server-side caching, holding availability under heavy traffic.
- Built dynamic campaigns, data queries, and secure interfaces for enterprise clients including Bank of America, Century 21, and Northwestern Mutual.
- Directed cross-functional teams through end-to-end delivery of enterprise mobile applications on iOS and Android.
Competencies
01 Leadership
- Chair, Software Developer Committee
- Direct report to the Chief Information Officer
- Technical roadmap and sprint alignment to operational KPIs
- Build-versus-buy analysis and vendor lifecycle management
- Mentoring web and native mobile engineers
- Presenting architecture and beta releases to the C-suite
02 Healthcare & Compliance
- HIPAA-compliant system design
- Protected health information access control and logging
- Audit trail and retention designed at the schema
- DNV survey readiness
- Clinical workflow digitisation
- Healthcare informatics and interoperability
03 Microsoft Stack
- C#, 6 years
- ASP.NET MVC
- Microsoft SQL Server, 8 years
- Active Directory authentication and group-based authorisation
- Windows Server and IIS deployment
- Zero-downtime releases against live clinical data
04 Front End
- JavaScript, 10 years
- React
- Vanilla HTML and CSS, 10 years, no framework dependency
- Accessible, responsive interface engineering
- Native iOS in Swift and native Android in Java and Kotlin