KEVIN BADINGER
I rescue high-stakes workflows and ship AI that survives a regulator, a board meeting, and Monday morning.
30 years of production systems across regulated industries — fintech, healthcare, insurtech, govtech, logistics, hospitality. Founded and ran a regulated SaaS platform that processed over a million certifications across 35 states, operated by clients every day for over a decade. Bootstrapped to a successful exit.
Today: AI Compliance for regulated organizations. AI Coding Governance for engineering teams. Workflow Rescue for operations that have stopped being able to explain how they actually run. Production code daily — MCP servers, multi-LLM orchestration, RAG pipelines. Managed a 30+ person distributed engineering team across India, Serbia, and Brazil.
Taking on select engagements. Talks with engineering leaders are free.
What I'm Working On
AI Agent Audit
AI Agent Governance & Reliability • 2025-present
Production audit tooling for AI agent deployments. Always-on monitoring, periodic audit sweeps, auto-remediation, and reporting. Built because most AI agent platforms ship with permissive defaults that expose credentials, tools, and data — and regulated environments need audit-grade visibility that doesn't exist out of the box.
Python • Audit monitoring • Configuration validation • Auto-remediation
The AI Reckoning
Book • In Progress
The software industry abandoned its fundamentals, and AI is accelerating the consequences to a speed nobody is ready for. Thirty years of watching the same failures repeat across seven industries — and now vibe coding is manufacturing a trillion-dollar tech debt crisis. AI is a multiplier. Bring understanding and it multiplies your ability to build things that work. Bring ignorance and it multiplies your ability to build things that break.
Publishing 2026
ThisWeekEats
Family Meal Planning Platform • 2024-present
Family meal planning platform that learns what your household actually eats. Per-member preferences, allergy safety, budget-aware generation, weekly scheduling with availability filtering. Turns hours of grocery planning into minutes.
Next.js • Python • Google Gemini • Preference engine
What I've Built
Before that, I spent two decades architecting production systems still in use today.
Conductor
Nurse Aide Credentialing Platform • Founded 2005 • Bootstrapped to a successful exit
Built from scratch as CEO. Processed 1M+ certifications across 35+ states. Became the industry standard for nurse aide credentialing. Automated operations that competitors handled with large teams. Bootstrapped, profitable from year one. 20 years operational.
StarFloors
Flooring Installation Platform • 2014-2023 • Fortune 500
Multi-portal flooring installation management system for senior living communities. Automated the full workflow from customer contact through installation and billing. Different industry, same approach — eliminate friction. 9+ years operational.
About
Started with embedded systems at Texas Instruments. Built enterprise platforms for 300+ Fortune 1000 companies as Lead Architect at Trintech. 30 years building production systems.
Ran a healthcare tech company as CEO for 12 years. Built the platform from scratch in 2005 — it became the industry standard for nurse aide credentialing. Processed 1M+ certifications across 35 states. Clients operated on it daily for over a decade. Bootstrapped, profitable from year one, no outside capital. HIPAA certified. US Patent holder.
The actual story: competitors threw bodies at the problem. I built automation that let a small team outperform organizations many times our size. When contracts came up for renewal, we kept winning. That's what I do — find the friction killing your team and engineer it away.
Turns out, keeping systems running is just like marathons—and Ironmans: endurance, pacing, and finishing matter most.
How I Work
You have a business problem. I help you solve it — whether that means building the system myself, leading a team, or advising on architecture and strategy.
- Architecture, stack selection, build vs. buy decisions
- Hands-on implementation or team leadership depending on scope
- Third-party integration and vendor evaluation
- Full technical ownership for as long as you need it
I've worked this way for 30 years — for my own companies and for clients.
Available for consulting and implementation work. Get in touch.