Kevin Badinger
Fractional CTO • Technical Founder • CEO
Summary
30 years building production systems. Former CEO who scaled healthcare tech company from $0 to $12M+ annually. Managed 588 people at peak. Reduced operational staff by 83% through automation. Lead Architect serving 300+ Fortune 1000 companies. 20M+ lines of production code. Zero contract losses in 12 years. Systems still running 20+ years later.
Experience
CEO & Founder
Resolvent Technologies
Built products and served enterprise clients as a one-person tech organization.
Credentia (subsidiary)
Healthcare credentialing platform. Scaled from $0 to $12M+ annually. 1M+ certifications across 35+ states. Managed 588 people at peak. 83% staff reduction through automation. Zero contract losses in 12 years. System still running 20+ years later. Acquired 2023.
StarFloors (Fortune 500 client)
Senior living flooring installation management. Complete workflow from customer contact through installation and billing. 85% productivity increase. 10K+ daily transactions. 9+ years operational.
Thousand Trails (enterprise client)
Contracting and documentation system for national RV resort operator. End-to-end process management. Systems integration with existing infrastructure.
eRAIL (current)
Rail logistics track & trace platform. Real-time carrier API integration. Geospatial routing on 11GB rail network data. Sub-3 second performance.
Technical Expert Analysis (litigation support)
Technical expert analysis for major technology litigation involving advertising fraud detection systems. Provided technical due diligence and forensic analysis for legal counsel.
Lead Architect
Trintech (Enterprise Financial Software)
- Lead Architect for ReconNET LCM (Loan Compliance Manager) - banking compliance and reconciliation platform.
- Served 300+ Fortune 1000 financial institutions worldwide. Multi-national deployments.
- 100x performance improvement on reconciliation products through SQL Server and Oracle tuning.
- Reversed sales win-loss ratio from 0% to 100% in one quarter through GUI redesign.
- Technical sales engineering for $500 billion investment company (3-person team).
- Development Manager for Fraud Tracking software.
- Multi-state regulatory compliance for unclaimed property/escheatment.
- Entrepreneur of the Month award.
Software Engineer
Texas Instruments
- Converted IMS mainframe system to distributed object-oriented architecture (Smalltalk/GemStone).
- Semiconductor machine tracking processing 40 transactions/second.
- Supported 12 worldwide customer sites with 24x7 availability.
- Customer Delight Award for production support excellence.
Software Engineer
DSC Communications
- Broadband cross-connect testing systems for telecom infrastructure.
- Embedded Smalltalk on SunOS and pSos operating systems.
- Reduced manufacturing test and installation costs by 50%.
- Director Quarterly Award for Excellence.
Major Platforms Built
Conductor
Healthcare credentialing platform. 20+ years operational. 1M+ certifications. Over $100M in exam revenue processed. Multi-portal architecture. 20+ state database integrations.
ReconNET LCM (Trintech)
Banking compliance platform for 300+ Fortune 1000 financial institutions. Bank reconciliation. Cash forecasting. Unclaimed property management. Payment lifecycle. Multi-national deployment.
LIFE Languages
Personality assessment platform. 20+ years operational. 7 Biblical Life Languages. Multi-national deployment. Complex grading algorithms.
SCORE
Mobile exam platform. iOS/Android native apps. $200k+ annual savings. Offline exam administration. Instant score delivery.
StarFloors
Senior living operations platform. 85% productivity increase. 10K+ daily transactions. Deployed to largest US operators. 9+ years operational.
AI Projects
DecisionForge
Multi-LLM debate engine for complex decisions. Evaluation harness with rubric-based scoring, dual-judge automation, regression suites. GitHub Actions CI/CD. Inter-rater reliability improved from 0.6 to 0.85.
ThisWeekEats
AI meal planning system. Constrained generation with hard rules for dietary preferences, time limits, favorites tracking. 100+ families testing. Planning time reduced from 2-3 hours to under 10 minutes. 60% reduction in takeout spending.
Guardian
Personal superintelligence system. 5 intelligence engines: semantic memory with vector search (Qdrant/Pinecone), decision intelligence with multi-model validation, TELOS goal tracking with causal sequence memory, pattern discovery, and proactive life optimization. Self-hosted, privacy-first architecture. Production ready with 31 automated tests.
LocalRag
Personal knowledge RAG system. Vector embeddings, local LLM inference, document retrieval for private knowledge bases.
Technical Skills
Languages
C#, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, Swift, Objective-C, SQL, Smalltalk, COBOL
Frameworks
ASP.NET, React, Next.js, Node.js, Flutter, Ruby on Rails
Databases
SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, MongoDB, Redis, SQLite, ChromaDB
Cloud & Infrastructure
Azure, AWS, Vercel, Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions CI/CD, Terraform
AI & ML
Claude, GPT-4, LlamaIndex, LangChain, Ollama, Vector embeddings, RAG systems, Multi-LLM orchestration, AI evaluation harnesses
Mobile
iOS (Swift, Objective-C), Android (Java, Kotlin), React Native, Flutter
Key Metrics
Publications & Presentations
- "Isolating Performance Problems" — SQL Server Magazine, August 2000
- "Database Independent Applications with Java" — OOPSLA '99 Conference
- "Fight Trendy Decisions and Use the Best Technology" — Smalltalk Digest, 2003
Awards & Recognition
- Trintech — Entrepreneur of the Month
- DSC Communications — Director Quarterly Award for Excellence
- Texas Instruments — Customer Delight Award for Production Support
Patent
US Patent #13789069 — Image encoding meaningful data into pixel values
Current Work
Operating as Fractional CTO for select clients. I become your tech organization - making all technical decisions, building or hiring as needed, owning the entire technical ecosystem. Currently focused on AI implementation and business process automation.