Senior Full-Stack Engineer & MVP Builder with +10 years of experience turning messy, early-stage ideas into production-ready products. I specialize in React, Next.js, TypeScript, Node.js, and Python, with deep experience across healthcare, fintech, logistics, and AI/ML. From architecting secure HIPAA-compliant platforms to building design systems and AI-powered apps, I help startups and scale-ups move fast without breaking things. šŸ’” What I bring: End-to-end product delivery: from MVP → scale. Strong frontend craft (design systems, UX-first builds). Backend systems with GraphQL/REST APIs, event-driven architecture, and cloud deployment (AWS, Azure). Proven results: helped founders validate PMF within 60 days, scale apps to thousands of users, and streamline costs with robust infra. If you need a fractional CTO, founding engineer, or hands-on senior dev, I can jump in quickly, own delivery, and raise the engineering bar.…

Iain Sanderson

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Senior Full-Stack Engineer & MVP Builder with +10 years of experience turning messy, early-stage ideas into production-ready products. I specialize in React, Next.js, TypeScript, Node.js, and Python, with deep experience across healthcare, fintech, logistics, and AI/ML. From architecting secure HIPAA-compliant platforms to building design systems and AI-powered apps, I help startups and scale-ups move fast without breaking things. šŸ’” What I bring: End-to-end product delivery: from MVP → scale. Strong frontend craft (design systems, UX-first builds). Backend systems with GraphQL/REST APIs, event-driven architecture, and cloud deployment (AWS, Azure). Proven results: helped founders validate PMF within 60 days, scale apps to thousands of users, and streamline costs with robust infra. If you need a fractional CTO, founding engineer, or hands-on senior dev, I can jump in quickly, own delivery, and raise the engineering bar.…

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Senior Full-Stack Engineer & MVP Builder with +10 years of experience turning messy, early-stage ideas into production-ready products.

I specialize in React, Next.js, TypeScript, Node.js, and Python, with deep experience across healthcare, fintech, logistics, and AI/ML. From architecting secure HIPAA-compliant platforms to building design systems and AI-powered apps, I help startups and scale-ups move fast without breaking things.

šŸ’” What I bring:

End-to-end product delivery: from MVP → scale.

Strong frontend craft (design systems, UX-first builds).

Backend systems with GraphQL/REST APIs, event-driven architecture, and cloud deployment (AWS, Azure).

Proven results: helped founders validate PMF within 60 days, scale apps to thousands of users, and streamline costs with robust infra.

If you need a fractional CTO, founding engineer, or hands-on senior dev, I can jump in quickly, own delivery, and raise the engineering bar.

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Work Experience

Full-Stack Engineer – Customer Experience Team at Athelas
August 2, 2022 - Present
Remote full-stack engineer focused on customer experience; contributed to modular UI components and backend services to support scalable, real-time features and streamlined user flows.
Lead Software Engineer at Tink (Visa)
August 1, 2022 - September 24, 2025
Led software engineering for the Visa Open Banking division; designed and implemented scalable backend services (Node.js and Python) and API integrations; guided cross-functional teams to deliver features on schedule.
Software Engineer at Belong
June 1, 2019 - September 24, 2025
Remote software engineer contributing to real-time analytics dashboards and AI pipelines; helped implement NLP/LLM components and HIPAA-aligned workflows; contributed to UI and backend services for AI features.
Software Engineer at Airbnb
August 1, 2018 - September 24, 2025
San Francisco-based engineer: Rebuilt a chronic care dashboard using React and FHIR for real-time insights across multiple specialties; integrated a privately hosted LLM (Azure OpenAI + LangChain) to summarize patient histories and flag anomalies, reducing triage time by 35%; designed emotionally intelligent UI with micro-interactions; architected backend services in Node.js and Python to support NLP pipelines; implemented real-time checks and payment flows; established HIPAA/GDPR-aligned monitoring and dashboards; delivered a modular design system with reusable components and accelerated feature rollout.

Education

Bachelor of Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
July 1, 2011 - May 1, 2015

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Software & Internet, Financial Services, Healthcare, Media & Entertainment, Professional Services, Education