Jake L. Muller Principal Software Engineer

Jake L. Muller

Principal Software Engineer at Garnet Health · Slate Hill, New York · Reports to the CIO · Chair, Software Developer Committee

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Scope

Reports to
Chief Information Officer and SVP

Direct

Chairs
Software Developer Committee & AI Governance Committee

Engineering to C-suite

Leads
Web and native mobile engineers

Mentoring and direction

Releases
10+ per year

Web, iOS, Android

Owns
Internal platform portfolio

Architecture through operations

Decides
Build versus buy

Costed against real quotes

Experience
10 years

Healthcare and enterprise

Recognition
DNV designation

External survey

Experience

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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