Sam Texas

CTO

Austin, Texas, United States4 yrs 8 mos experience

AI EnabledAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

Transformed operations with agentic AI systems.
Achieved $1M+ in cost optimizations.
Led engineering teams through market downturns.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned leader in AI-driven solutions across healthcare and finance sectors.

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Skills

Core Skills

Generative AiFull Stack EngineeringInfrastructure DevelopmentEngineering ManagementBlockchainTechnical Program ManagementSite Reliability EngineeringCto LeadershipHealthcare Ai

Other Skills

AI/MLData pipeline architectureRAG systemsVector search optimizationTeam growthInfrastructureSecurity & ProcessOpenAI APIsClaudeGeminiCloud infrastructureAutomated deploymentTeam leadershipBlockchain solutionsCompliance management

About

I transform operations through agentic AI systems that deliver measurable business impact. With 10+ years of international experience and recent return to the US, I bring a fresh perspective on scaling AI implementations across healthcare, finance, and enterprise environments. What I deliver: • 50-90% faster software delivery through agentic coding workflows (Claude Code, Gemini, Codex, OpenRouter, GROQ) • $1M+ cost optimizations through strategic AI and infrastructure implementations • RAG systems for healthcare providers and financial institutions with regulatory compliance • Multi-agent systems serving 238M+ users with zero-downtime deployments • Strategic hiring pause decisions - clients choose AI productivity gains over headcount growth Technical Leadership: • Led 40-person engineering organization (5 managers, 30+ ICs) through market downturns • Scaled teams from 30→60 engineers in 6 months during pandemic • FDA approval and EU MDR compliance experience for medical device AI systems • Cross-border operations: US, EU, Canada with multi-jurisdiction regulatory expertise Current Focus: Building production agentic AI systems for enterprise sales, customer success, and finance operations. Specializing in LLM evaluation frameworks, advanced RAG implementations, and prompt engineering that actually works in production. Industries: Healthcare AI, FinTech, Ad Tech, Gaming, Blockchain Tech Stack: Python, OpenAI/Anthropic APIs, LangChain, RAG, Vector DBs, AWS/GCP/Azure

Experience

Collide.

Member of Technical Staff

Oct 2025 – Present · 5 mos · Houston, Texas, United States · On-site

Onboard, train, support nontechnical, FDE, and Engineering to Agentic coding and more
Soc2/security
Teach, mentor, and occasionally save engineers from themselves through office hours and real talk

Blockdaemon

Director of Engineering And Operations

Sep 2023 – Mar 2024 · 6 mos · New York, New York, United States · Remote

Director-level role leading 5 teams of SRE, NodeOperations, and Delivery Management.
Led diverse teams; improved morale during market downturns.
Managed 24/7/365 RPC, Validators, and Oracles across 60+ protocols.
Oversaw AWS, GCP, and bare metal operations; ensured ISO 27001 compliance.
Engaged with Tier 1 financial institutions; delivered tailored blockchain solutions.
Integrated cutting-edge technologies like zero-knowledge proofs and Chainlink.
Operated 40,000+ nodes; managed petabytes of blockchain data.
Achieved $1M+ annual cost savings; improved security and performance.
Mentored team members; fostered professional growth.

Team leadershipBlockchain solutionsCompliance managementSecurity and performance improvementEngineering ManagementBlockchain

Chainlink labs

Technical Program Manager

Nov 2022 – Aug 2023 · 9 mos · Remote

TPM for Reliability and Infrastructure
Support platform,node operations, and production engineering teams
Manages multiple RPC vendors (totaling more than 7-figures yearly)
Facilitate org-wide meetings and demos.
Foster async culture for global remote teams with light-touch process and automation
Mature the organization through mentorship and advisory

Reliability engineeringVendor managementProcess automationTechnical Program Management

Activision blizzard

Site Reliability Engineering Manager

Sep 2020 – Sep 2022 · 2 yrs · Stockholm County, Sweden

I help lead and support infrastructure, DevOps, and engineering teams to plan, deliver, and support live environments.
Project and program manage efforts to migrate LIVE on-prem environment to cloud with ZERO downtime.
Own multiple vendor selection, evaluation, and engagement for enterprise SaaS ($1MM+ annual spend)
Contract and agreement negotiations
Coaching, mentoring, and training
Organize, lead, facilitate, and drive meetings
Clear blockers for teams (technical, process, bureaucratic)
Created delivery focus, through culture, communication, and strategy work
Recruiting, and managing engineering teams
Responsible for delivery of technical work across multiple engineering teams
Supported engineers with architectural strategies
Supported growth of staff in my team

Infrastructure managementDevOpsVendor selectionSite Reliability Engineering

Simple cto

Generative AI & Full Stack Engineer

Mar 2020 – Oct 2025 · 5 yrs 7 mos · Remote

AI/ML & Data
Enterprise LLM solutions (OpenAI, Claude, Gemini)
RAG systems and vector search optimization
Data pipeline architecture and optimization
Team Growth
Scaled startup teams (zero-to-one) (from 2 to 30)
Manage scale-up growth 30 to 50+ (EMEA/NA)
40% improved delivery efficiency
20+ key technical hires
30% increased team productivity
Infrastructure
High-availability RPC infrastructure
Automated node deployment (cloud/bare metal)
20% faster deployment cycles
Enterprise observability systems
$1.5M annual infrastructure savings
Security & Process
Remote-first development workflows
Vendor evaluation frameworks
Enterprise compliance systems

AI/MLData pipeline architectureRAG systemsVector search optimizationTeam growthInfrastructure+3

Nuvoair

CTO (Healthcare and IoT)

May 2017 – Aug 2019 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Stockholm, Sweden

I joined as CTO to create, lead, and deliver the technical strategy for the company.
Product development:
Class II-A Bluetooth-connected medical device (Spirometer)
Multiple mobile applications for patients, research, and physicians
Created doctor-patient video streaming platforms for remote-care
Enterprise SaaS for clinical trials (pharma, research)
Artificial Intelligence diagnosis and early exacerbation prediction in niche disease areas
Impact:
CapEX for infrastructure to zero dollars for 2 years by acquiring sponsorship from Microsoft BizSpark for 3MSEK (~$315,000 USD)
Sales of > $1MM USD/year in clinical trial SaaS in 1st year
Grew headcount from 5 to over 20 employees in less than two years.
Improved release cadence from once a week to multiple times per day for backend
Reduced internal support tickets by 80% by identifying and creating tools for self-service
Reduced audit findings by 90% through improved policy and process enforcement
Lead compliance for:
ISO 27001, ISO 13485, GDPR, HIPAA, 21 CFR Part 11 The tech stack: iOS, Android, Python, Django, Azure, Docker, PostgreSQL