Jared Cordova

Partner with founders and executive teams to make high-stakes technical decisions, scale organizations, and accelerate product delivery. Clients typically engage during critical inflection points: launching new products, inheriting legacy systems, or navigating leadership transitions. Select engagements: • Lark Health (Engineering Leadership Consultant) — Retained as advisor following six-year tenure, coaching engineering leaders through organizational challenges and providing architectural and institutional context that supports sound technical decisions during leadership transition.

Serve as executive partner to the founder, owning all high-level architecture and hiring decisions for the engineering team. Defined the technical strategy that launched the Troo app from 0 to 1.  • Enabled concept-to-launch execution by leading all technology selection and designing a cost-optimized, serverless-first cloud infrastructure, culminating in an international product launch that won two Parents’ Picks Awards (2025). • Built the engineering organization from scratch by defining a lean team structure, hiring all engineers, and partnering with the founder to validate market fit through rapid low-code MVP before architecting a scalable go-to-market platform.

Directed engineering organization of 35 employees with 9 direct reports across application, data, and platform teams while managing multimillion-dollar budgets, aligning technology initiatives with corporate objectives, and scaling infrastructure to support millions of concurrent users during peak enrollment campaigns, securing key revenue targets. • Secured 90% partner retention and expansion into pharmacy benefit manager and GLP-1 markets by leading migration of legacy data infrastructure to Snowflake/DBT, reducing data platform operational expenses by over 90% and unblocking predictive analytics capabilities.  • Reduced annual cloud spend by $300K and established cross-team architectural standards by leading an engineering guild of senior and staff engineers, creating a structure and culture that drove responsible AI adoption and empowered members to self-direct technical innovation while protecting product roadmap delivery. • Reduced incident resolution times by 50% and decreased customer support burden by modernizing internal tooling, enhancing monitoring, and driving a DevOps transformation that enabled developers to safely manage their own service infrastructure. • Built engineering talent and leadership pipeline by defining technical expectations and growth criteria, creating detailed role specifications validated by senior engineers and executives, advancing high-performing ICs into staff IC or management roles, and coaching managers through complex performance and technical leadership challenges.

Oversaw DevOps and data engineering teams while partnering with executive leadership on organizational transformation that transitioned engineering teams from platform-oriented silos to product-aligned units, improving cross-functional collaboration and delivery velocity. • Transformed quality of engineering delivery by implementing and enforcing a technical design review (RFC) process that eliminated duplicate work, ensured data teams influenced schema design from the start, and established API contracts that aligned front-end and backend development before code was written. • Modernized data organization to improve delivery consistency and stakeholder confidence, restructuring into specialized functions (data engineers, reporting analysts, DataOps), identifying and developing emerging engineering leaders, and assuming interim engineering management responsibilities to stabilize large-scale platform upgrades (Airflow 2, Databricks E2). • Accelerated customer issue resolution by establishing self-service tooling that enabled customer support to independently manage specific account operations (profile management, eligibility), eliminating manual engineer intervention and operational interruptions.

Led backend engineering teams responsible for systems underlying clinical programs, including real-time data processing, medical device integration, user data ingestion, and secure account management. • Saved $1M annually in vendor costs by architecting and launching an in-house IoT-enabled cellular scale platform that replaced third-party vendors, partnering with engineers on technical design and coordinating with supply chain manager to establish a connected fulfillment center. • Unlocked business expansion with partners by designing and coordinating cross-team implementation of a transition system that allowed members to migrate between clinical programs as eligibility changed, incentivizing partners to purchase multiple point solutions rather than single offerings.

Managed product engineering teams owning the real-time data ingestion platform, cellular device integration, fulfillment pipeline, and conversation logic. • Enabled launch of major enterprise partnership with millions of eligible users by migrating real-time data ingestion pipeline from Java monolith to scalable microservice and serverless architecture using DynamoDB, eliminating performance bottlenecks and enabling platform to scale to enterprise demand under accelerated timeline.

Key contributor to the product engineering team, responsible for clinical event data ingestion and food coaching infrastructure. • Drove modularization of digital coaching platform in partnership with CTO and senior product designer that enabled personalized programs across multiple health areas (weight loss, stress management, tobacco cessation), meeting partner demand that increased revenue and retention; named as co-inventor on resulting patent for this foundational architecture.

• Contributed to 150% revenue growth by developing and deploying NLP-based review analysis feature that improved patient review quality, securing key enterprise partnerships including Aetna. • Improved operations workflow efficiency by 3x through complete overhaul of internal APIs and tools, enabling operations team to scale without additional headcount. • Decreased page load times by 10x through end-to-end rewrite of consumer-facing platform, improving user experience and search engine optimization.

Served as founding engineer for healthcare provider search and data platform at bootstrapped digital health startup that matured into a profitable small business. • Won first place and $30k prize in New York State Health Innovation Challenge (2014) by developing patient outcomes data integration that made state health data accessible to consumers shopping for doctors. • Kickstarted data licensing business by developing automated physician headshot extraction using OpenCV-based facial recognition, providing foundational data to early-stage partners such as Doximity.

Overhauled an online experiment for the Symbiotic Project on Affective Neuroscience (SPAN) lab to support a research study in neuroeconomics. • Citation: Knutson, B., Samanez-Larkin, G. R., & Kuhnen, C. M. (2011). "Gain and Loss Learning Differentially Contribute to Life Financial Outcomes." PLoS ONE, 6(9), e24390.