The Jordan Benge Collection

Marani Health builds maternal and fetal remote patient monitoring: a clinical web portal, patient mobile apps, and BLE wearable hardware. Marani licensed the platform my co-founder and I built at Cujonics, then hired the two of us to be their in-house development team.

The FDA app. I was the sole developer of an FDA 510(k)-submitted BLE mobile application (React Native/Expo) that captures and processes fetal and maternal heart-rate data from wearable hardware. A big part of that work was the submission itself: building the quality and safety controls into the app so it would hold up to FDA scrutiny.

Patient apps. As the only mobile engineer, I built two patient-facing apps from zero to production: the Mother monitoring app, and the Mwrap app, which went from kickoff to shipped in about six weeks. Both went into production with patients at roughly 15 client organizations, including national payers, health systems, perinatal practices, and grant-funded studies.

Portal modernization. I upgraded the clinical portal to modern Angular (signals, standalone components, an RxJS-driven architecture, a full animations migration) and cut the time from bug report or feature request to QA-testable code by 43%. I also shipped dark mode across the portal.

Dynamic forms & surveys. I extended the forms system into a cross-platform survey and protocol engine. Clinicians build a form, survey, or monitoring protocol once, and the same definition renders on the web portal and in the mobile apps. I added multi-language survey support with an AI-based translation service for patient-facing content, and built messaging that works across the mobile apps and the web portal.

Performance. I cut asset delivery size by 78% with compression and smarter delivery, and deployment time in half with caching. I kept a habit of auditing our bundles with esbuild-visualizer and custom Node scripts, and moved route SCSS into lazy-loaded chunks.

Testing. I built the org's automated testing from the ground up: Playwright UI and API suites (the API tests run against a real Spring Boot backend using Testcontainers and PostgreSQL), Maestro mobile E2E in CI, and Jest unit tests on the React Native side. I also published a shared Postgres seed as GHCR Docker images, so the portal and mobile test suites work from the same data.

Release pipeline & DevOps. I automated delivery with reusable GitHub Actions composite actions, EAS and Firebase App Distribution for mobile builds, GitHub Pages dashboards for test and deploy results, and Teams notifications. All of it supported a release every two to three weeks, and an automated SBOM security scan of our codebases came back with zero vulnerabilities. As the backup DevOps owner, I also introduced point-in-time-recovery database backups and helped set up a new git flow.

Shared packages. I maintained and published the @maranihealth TypeScript and React Native packages that the web and mobile codebases share. When two ESLint plugins we depended on had no ESLint 9 support and blocked the org's lint migration, I wrote and published compatible versions myself.

Cujonics was a two-person software company. We built a remote patient monitoring platform and licensed it to Marani Health, who eventually hired us both full-time.

As one of the two engineers, I owned the frontend architecture from product decisions through delivery, and reworked the platform's legacy TypeScript/Angular codebase.

I designed the dynamic healthcare forms UI, which lets organizations create their own digital forms with custom validation and share them org-wide. I also built a workflow engine that generates patient reports in real time with Chart.js, and a three-tier notification system that watches incoming results at the patient, organization, and company level.

The thing I'm proudest of is the multi-client switcher, which let a single codebase ship uniquely skinned, feature-gated deployments for each client. That's the piece that made the product something Marani could license at all.

BioAnalyt is a food product-innovation company based in Teltow, Germany. They build portable rapid test kits that measure vitamin concentrations in food and biological fluids. I worked with them fully remote.

I took their proof-of-concept MVP and grew it into a fully functioning consumer-facing application. I wrote the frontend coding standards the team used going forward, and worked directly with the product manager on scoping: setting realistic expectations, then delivering within them.

BrightFox is a healthcare staffing marketplace connecting hospitals directly with workers.

I designed and built their data-extraction and transformation platform as a set of fully independent modules, so a failure pulling data from one health system never affected any other, and new systems could be added or changed on their own. The platform ingested 30+ healthcare systems and brought hundreds of thousands of hospital staffing positions from across the country into the BrightFox database.

I profiled and optimized it extensively across platforms and load conditions, working directly with the Chief Technology Architect. My time there was cut short when COVID-19 hit the business.

WannaTrain is a wellness community app, built by a team spread across 3 continents and 5 time zones.

I set up a code-review testing environment that sped up our release-candidate process by 40%. I also prepared the product reports and demos used in investor meetings, and wrote technical architecture proposals for third-party integrations. Working across that many time zones taught me to be self-sufficient: if I hit a problem in the morning, nobody who could help was awake until that night.

I was the sole developer on a full redesign of the department's website and its web-based tools, and gathered the requirements myself from every department head.

Along the way I integrated Tableau visualizations for real-time reporting, and built review-automation software that cut review mistakes in half.

My first industry job. I did AngularJS and JavaScript feature work, and wrote technical proposals for integrating third-party software systems, on a small team where everyone shared in each other's successes.

Where it all started, and still going part-time. I design, build, and maintain websites for small-business clients — including the one you're reading right now.

I freelanced under my own name from 2013 on; Omaha Digital Designs is the banner it runs under these days, founded a few years back.