Sasang Balachandran

VillageHub is an open marketplace application designed to connect customers and providers directly to one another. With a specific focus on health and wellness, customers can access free virtual health and wellness classes online, find and book a certified provider in simple, intuitive steps and easily manage payment and scheduling.

As the technical lead for this project, my role was to coordinate the development and testing efforts of a team of five developers and QA. This included data modeling, architecture solutions, and code reviews. My responsibilities also included working closely with the client to understand the requirements and designing a progressive roadmap for releases.

VillageHub is continuing to grow as a public application. The customer and provider base is increasing every day as marketing and outreach improve. The next major feature is an emphasis on dynamic payment models, allowing for more flexible transactions.

A mobile application designed to help facilitate easy access to patient information and provider documentation.

This app fills a need to modernize a heavily analog workflow. From providing custom workflows to document visits and submit EMR records to providing a centralized platform to access patient data from various sources, Amaze solves both of these problems in a simple, easy-to-use iOS application.

I was the senior technical lead for a larger group of ten developers and QA. As the project matured, my role shifted from a day-to-day coding and review workload to more of a design and solutions effort. I was responsible for creating the entire end-to-end tech stack for this application, including data modeling, workflow design, and cloud implementations.

This is still an active application with an increasing feature set and userbase. It's become a successful enterprise application with a mature and growing team behind it.

MyHealth is a care management platform. Members who need daily care for a medical situation can't receive that from their doctor daily. This system is an app that enables a member to manage their own daily care. The app's premium version enables a care manager to give daily patient care. MyHealth integrates with Apple's HealthKit and CareKit.

As the technical lead for a smaller team of three developers, this project had my fingerprints on almost every aspect of its design and creation. Here I was heavily involved in initializing the project and providing a working concept of the clients' requirements before the team got involved. My initial day-to-day workload was primarily focused on development and review. As the project matured, optimizations and performance tweaks were a primary focus where I was involved in implementing analytics on both the client and server sides.

Unfortunately, MyHealth is slowly getting phased out; the growth and adoption rates were not coming in as expected, and the product as a whole has competitors with more mature offerings. A good idea that ultimately failed to keep up with trends. As a silver lining, several lessons on outreach, marketing, and analytics were learned in this process.