Kevin Badinger

I write code that eliminates manual work. Been doing it for 30 years.

30-year regulated-SaaS engineering leader. I work across regulated industries — fintech, insurtech, legaltech, govtech, RegTech, healthcare-AI. The common thread is buyers who need an audit trail.

Started at Texas Instruments writing embedded Smalltalk for handheld devices. Moved to enterprise software—spent years as Lead Architect building financial reconciliation systems for 300+ Fortune 1000 companies.

Then I started my own company. A regulated SaaS platform — nurse aide credentialing. Built it from scratch in 2005. Ran it as CEO for 12 years. Wrote all the code myself while managing the business. Managed 50+ US engineers plus a 30+ person distributed engineering team across India, Serbia, and Brazil — separate from the 500+ person operational organization. Bootstrapped, profitable from year one, no outside capital. It became the industry standard — clients operated on it daily across 35 states for over a decade.

The thing I'm most proud of: I built automation that let a small team outperform organizations many times our size. Competitors had teams of 50+ people doing manual data entry. I built systems that eliminated most of it. Processed 1,000,000+ certifications. When contracts came up for renewal, we kept winning. Bootstrapped to a successful exit.

I've shipped everything. Native mobile apps (iOS/Android). Web platforms (React, Next.js). Cloud infrastructure (Azure, AWS). On-prem enterprise systems that ran for decades. Legacy integrations with 30-year-old COBOL systems. Modern AI implementations with Claude, GPT-4, and local models.

Now I'm building AI tools and helping companies automate manual processes. Not "digital transformation" consulting—actual code that eliminates actual work.

Still recovering COBOL dev. Still shipping code daily.

Turns out, keeping systems running is just like marathons—and Ironmans: endurance, pacing, and finishing matter most.