Alan Asher
Senior Engineering Leader & Full Stack Architect
Summary
Senior engineering leader with 19+ years of experience building and scaling SaaS platforms in healthcare, logistics, and gentech. Proven track record of growing high-performing teams, accelerating delivery, and driving multimillion-dollar product outcomes.
Technical Skills
Leadership
People ManagementMentoringAgile & SAFeTechnical RoadmappingStakeholder AlignmentBudget ManagementIncident Management
Languages
PHPJavaScriptTypeScriptPythonRubySQL
Frameworks
LaravelSymfonyReactVueNext.jsNode.js
Cloud & DevOps
AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, SQS, Glue)CI/CD (GitHub Actions, Jenkins)Docker
Education
B.S. Computer Science
Arizona State University
Certified ScrumMaster (CSM)
Scrum Alliance
Professional Experience
Senior Full Stack Software Engineer
03/25 - Present Elevate PFS | Remote
- Modernization effort, introducing async processing that lifted throughput by 30%.
- Instituted OWASP security hardening checklist adopted organization-wide.
- Lead the effort to create a functional testing suite and include it on the CI/CD pass/fail pipeline.
- De-monolith’d a 33,000 line php script by using OOP and separation of domain logic into classes.
Senior Software Engineer
08/24 - 02/25 VirtualHealth / Elligint Health | Remote
- Creation of Single Sign On (SSO) solutions with Okta, Azure and other identity providers to the platform.
- Enhancement of the SSO platform to act as an identity provider to other service providers.
- Developed and maintained the web application using Symfony PHP and a mix of vanilla plus react javascript for front end.
- Attained an NBIS (formerly eQIP) Public Trust certification to work on federal systems.
Lead Full Stack Software Engineer
04/24 - 08/24 Blockskye Inc | Remote
- Managed a 6-engineer squad delivering a multi-tenant reporting platform; introduced GitFlow, cutting branch overhead by 75%.
- Championed the project to onboard new clients historical data with a multi-threaded, fault-tolerant import solution reducing total time from 4 days to 10 hours.
- Coordinated API v2 rollout with early-access clients, meeting a 6-week deadline.
- Adopted Scrum, boosting sprint velocity from 40 to 120 points.
Lead Full Stack Software Engineer
10/20 - 02/24 Cerebrum | Arizona (Remote)
- Built a SaaS DNA-risk assessment product; grew product from whiteboard design idea to full MVP.
- Led the transformation of a legacy PHP system to a Laravel-based backend with advanced queue management; optimized performance by 30%.
- Implemented CI/CD pipelines, increasing team productivity by 30% and code coverage by 70%.
- Orchestrated the adoption of Scrum framework across teams; tripled sprint velocity from 40 to 120 points.
Lead Full Stack Software Engineer
02/19 - 10/20 RxMG | California (Remote)
- Directed 5 concurrent projects and a distributed team of 8 engineers, acting as the primary technical liaison.
- Architected a distributed multi-server infrastructure processing millions of daily API posts, increasing sales conversions by 33%.
- Instituted Scrum methodology across 4 onshore and offshore teams, resulting in a 40% increase in project completion rate.
- Conducted regular code-review workshops that cut post-deployment bug reports by 33%.
Lead Full Stack Software Engineer
12/17 - 02/19 Central Dispatch | Phoenix, AZ
- Managed a cross-functional squad of 6 engineers responsible for a logistics SaaS platform.
- Migrated legacy PHP 5 codebase to PHP 7 and DB2 to MySQL, reducing OWASP vulnerability exposure from 55% to 2%.
- Championed CI/CD workflows with Jenkins, reducing deployment failures by 60%.
- Led migration of hardware infrastructure to Amazon EC2/S3, achieving a 22% reduction in hosting costs.
Lead Full Stack Software Engineer & DevOps Engineer
08/16 - 12/17 DMEhub.com | Chandler, AZ
- Headed a 4-engineer team building a HIPAA-compliant healthcare SaaS for Medicare-eligible DME orders.
- Achieved an 80% increase in order accuracy and processing speed through optimized Laravel/Vue.js architecture.
- Designed AWS architecture to meet strict HIPAA controls; integrated automated vulnerability scanning (Veracode).
- Established a no-downtime deployment setup, reducing deployment failures by 60%.
Senior Full Stack Software Engineer
04/13 - 08/16 Socious | Mesa, AZ
- Maintained a 12-year-old legacy application with feature enhancements using PHP and Symfony packages.
- Scaled up the existing testing framework from 40% coverage to 75%.
- Refactored membership billing algorithms to align with complex pro-rating business structures.
- Implemented Scrum for the IT department where previously it was Kanban.
Full Stack Software Engineer / DevOps
05/11 - 03/13 Liberty Distribution | Chandler, AZ
- Maintained and created new features for the warehouse pick, pack and shipping app with Python for both backend and client binaries that ran on small form factor PCs.
- New features and bug fixes on the legacy PHP customer service portal.
- Utilized EDI to receive orders from large customers, in our custom ETL app that converted from EDI to JSON data structure, making it easy for the PHP app to consume and push data to the customers.
- Provided smaller customers a shopping cart site built with Ruby on Rails that pushed orders to the warehouse queue and integrated with Fed Ex tracking API for delivery updates.
Primary Software Engineer
08/10 - 05/11 Social Parrot | Scottsdale, AZ
- Concept to code using PHP, MySQL, jQuery for the entire SaaS application.
- Created a backend that would interface with Twitter, Facebook, HootSuite and many other social media platforms to post scheduled content for B2B and identity management.
- Led the charge for a service that would identify paragraph and sentence structure of blog posts then remix the article up to 1000 times.
- Engineered a solution that would post the articles that were remixed earlier to several news and blog services at different times to increase Google juice with the links that were embedded.
- Employed REXX scripting to run apps on our client’s machines so that traffic for the articles and blogs would be posted from varying IP addresses to enhance the appearance of dynamic and real content.
Lead PHP Developer
06/09 - 11/09 Gurus2Go.com | Phoenix, AZ
- Constructed a ground up solution to connect an existing database of laptop repair technicians with an API service from Samsung’s repair portal for large flat panel televisions using PHP.
- Updated and modernized the customer service and technician login portals using jQuery, HTML and CSS.
- Provided scheduled reporting of daily, weekly and monthly activity using MySQL queries and exported as CSV files.
Full Stack Software Engineer
01/07 - 05/09 WebPT.com | Phoenix, AZ
- Collaborated with our in house subject matter expert on the user experience.
- Engineered a ground up solution for gathering physical therapy appointment details using PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS, and jQuery.
- Custom tailored a solution for generating PDF documents from PT appointments to submit to insurances like Medicare.
- Consumed and provided HL7 documents as a transport mechanism for communicating with insurance payers of patient data.
- Implemented HIPAA policies across all aspects of software development and IT systems.