Case Studies
Engagements, outcomes, and how we got there
A selection of work across government, B2B SaaS, fintech, and regulated industries. Each one shows the problem, the approach, and the metrics that mattered. Client details are anonymized where required.
Taking over data.iowa.gov: from stalled rebuild to launch in five months
Iowa's open data platform rebuild was eighteen months into a six-month quote, with the vendor projecting another year. The State of Iowa and Google asked me to take over — assess the project, own the system design, and finish it. Five months later, data.iowa.gov was delivered, about $600K under the incumbent's quote.
Replatforming a fitness app from Django to FastAPI — data, web, and mobile
A fitness app company brought me in to lead a full replatform: strategize their data, move the backend from Django to FastAPI, and rewrite the web and mobile apps against the new API — all on a limited timeline, with a data migration that had to be handled properly. An engagement of leadership, strategy, and software architecture.
Measuring Iowa's Executive Order 10 progress across every state agency
Iowa's Executive Order 10 tasked every state agency with cutting regulatory burden — but progress lived in thousands of Administrative Code PDFs. I built data pipelines and dashboards that turned the code into quarterly, agency-by-agency metrics, so key leaders could see exactly which agencies were reducing restrictive language and how consolidations moved the numbers.
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