Abou Koné

Experience

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   Full-time · 9 mos

   • Chief Technology Officer

     Apr 2025 - Present · 4 mos·Remote·Current

     - Leading the adoption of AI/LLMs to automate operations, enhance patient experiences, and empower doulas and care providers. - Managing the transition from an outsourced engineering model to a high-performing internal team focused on delivering world-class digital health experiences. - Driving the technical roadmap and architecture across a multi-platform ecosystem, including legacy native mobile apps, PWAs, and a Twilio-powered IVR hotline. - Building and scaling infrastructure on AWS with a strong emphasis on reliability, performance, and security. - Partnering cross-functionally to ensure technical execution aligns with Pacify’s mission to improve maternal and infant health outcomes.

   • Head of Engineering

     Nov 2024 - Apr 2025 · 6 mos·Remote

     As Head of Engineering at Pacify, I am leading a high-impact, hands-on transition to a modernized platform architecture while driving technical ownership, operational efficiency, and innovation across the organization. My role combines strategic leadership with technical expertise, ensuring the new platform’s stability, scalability, and alignment with business objectives. My key responsibilities include: * Spearheading the replatforming initiative, transitioning from a vendor-reliant architecture to an internally-owned, scalable, and efficient system. * Collaborating closely with the Product Manager to align the technical roadmap with the product vision * Developing and deploying features, integrating new partners, and enhancing system capabilities with automation and AI-driven solutions to boost productivity. * Defining engineering capacity needs, building the case for strategic internal hiring, and fostering the growth of internal expertise to support long-term success. * Partnering with external vendors as capacity boosters while ensuring internal architectural ownership and long-term sustainability. * Leveraging expertise in DevOps, infrastructure, and SaaS development to ensure seamless deployment pipelines, HIPAA compliance, and the enforcement of PII and PHI rules critical in health tech. Through this role, I am driving the transformation of Pacify’s engineering practices, fostering a culture of ownership, and leveraging AI and strategic hiring to deliver innovative solutions that elevate both the platform and our user experiences. Tech Stack: - Frontend: TypeScript, React, Next.js, Tailwind CSS, Zustand, Storybook - Backend: NodeJS Serverless,Python, Flask, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, CloudFormation, AWS SQS, AWS SNS - APIs and Integrations: Healthie EHR, Candid RCM, Auth0, TwilioVoice, Braze - Tools and Testing: Jest, React Testing Library - Infrastructure: AWS, Github Actions - Collaboration: Git, GitHub Skills: Hands-on Technical Leadership · AI Coding · Strategic Planning · Full-Stack Development · Technical Project Management

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   Clockwise · Full-time

   • Engineering Manager

     Mar 2022 - Sep 2024 · 2 yrs 7 mos

     Clockwise is a calendar management productivity tool that helps teams make time for what matters. Clockwise AI Lead part of the team building the first conversational calendar experience powered by AI that makes scheduling a breeze. • Manage the implementation and testing of new features and APIs to support an AI powered scheduling solution • Triage and address bugs affecting various product areas. • Collaborate with team members to estimate and plan for upcoming project phases. • Work with product owners, marketing, and other teams to align on implementation goals and release strategies. • Foster a culture of ownership, craftsmanship, and customer empathy within the team. Growth & Monetization Lead a team whose mission is to leverage data to understand our customers and our funnel in depth, identify areas of opportunity and execute projects to drive revenue, customer growth, retention, and/or engagement. • Partner with a product manager and a product designer to increase product adoption and customer growth • Own the growth of engineering squad members and drive hiring for my team • Work with other engineering leaders to set technical direction • Create and continuously improve engineering processes and practices • Build and motivate our growing engineering team in a remote friendly environment Skills: Team Management · Workload Prioritization · Easily Adaptable · React.js

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   ShopRunner · Full-time

   • Engineering Manager

     Jul 2021 - Mar 2022 · 9 mos

     Coach and support two distributed teams of 12 engineers building the Shopping SDK, an e-commerce integration tool for ShopRunner retail partners. • Mentor engineers and own performance management of the team. • Drive improvements to the SDK based on the needs of customers. • Collaborate with other internal integration teams to ensure that shared concerns are implemented in accordance to customer needs, utilizing shared platform capabilities. • Partner with product managers, software engineers, and customer success to define the team’s roadmap. • Shape the culture of the organization by being a champion of software engineering best practices. • Hire and grow a diverse team in a fast-scaling organization. Skills: Team Management · Workload Prioritization · Easily Adaptable · React.js

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   IDDataWeb · Full-time

   • Manager, Front End

     Aug 2017 - May 2021 · 3 yrs 10 mos·Remote

     Managed and provided technical leadership to a team of developers at various experience levels owning and evolving a critical part of the IDDataWeb Web and Mobile Identity Verification Platforms. • Architected, coded and led code reviews using Angular/React on the different platform apps. • Planned and directed the work of the team as they designed and developed solutions to meet the platform needs. • Established and evolved the CI/CD processes and set development standards and practices • Worked with product owners to refine product feature sets and requirements. • Troubleshooted, researched, and prioritized production issues. • Mentored and grew developers while helping establish a culture of ownership, craftsmanship, customer empathy, and continuous improvement. • Worked with external teams to develop specifications for applications and ensure quality deliveries • Collaborated with third parties to manage SDK and API integrations Skills: Team Management · Workload Prioritization · Easily Adaptable · React.js

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   DDC

   • Sr Software Engineer

     Nov 2016 - Jun 2017 · 8 mos

     - Lead mobile web development leveraging Angular2 on mobile web app according to the requirements roadmap using a scrum delivery methodology. - Lead hybrid mobile application development using Phonegap/Cordova and Angular2 - Support platform testing efforts using Android Studio, XCode 8, Genymotion. - Own sprint goal efforts.

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   AKIL TECHNOLOGIES · Self-employed

   • Fractional CTO

     Aug 2016 - May 2021 · 4 yrs 10 mos·Abidjan

     AKIL Technologies is an innovative Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire based technology startup specialized in the development of modern applications and products specially in the Accounting and Finance industry with its ground breaking AKILCAB platform that solves many of the problems faced by the West African SYSCO OHADA based accounting and finance business community. - Works closely with the CEO and the COO to identify and act on opportunities arising from new technology. - Represents the technological agenda in staff meetings and when making hiring decisions - Maintains current knowledge of technology landscape and developments - Tracks, analyses and monitors technology performance metrics - Helps identify new areas of opportunities and create plans to implement them for us and our clients - Takes the initiative in thought leadership, innovation and creativity - Oversees all system design and changes in system architecture - Project manage an agile technical team across UI, Front End and Back End roles Skills: Team Management

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   KidKoders · Part-time

   • Co Founder

     Jul 2015 - Mar 2020 · 4 yrs 9 mos·Laurel MD

     KidKoders is a non profit organization with a mission to introduce kids to the wonders of coding. Through weekly sessions, we explore the different concepts behind programming using games. Alternatively we're trying to ensure that kids understand that coding is not a career choice that is unattainable for them by having guest speakers come to talk to them about their careers in ways that are relatable. - Teach Javascript using Code.org games to 5 to 12 year olds. - Plan activities to reinforce learned concepts

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   IMMUNIO

   • Front End Lead

     Nov 2014 - Sep 2016 · 1 yr 11 mos·Remote

     As part of a distributed team: - Architected and led development efforts on a usable, user friendly AngularJS 1.5 based security dashboard. - Lead all continuous integration and deployment initiatives - Collaborated continuously with the technical product manager, designer and VP of Product on wireframes, and assisted with quarterly planning of feature sets. - Performed ongoing refactoring of the code to facilitate the transition to Angular2. - Worked closely with back-end engineers to implement the optimal solutions to tricky feature sets. - Identified opportunities for adopting new technology to solve existing needs and predict future challenges. - Researched and adopted emerging standards where possible while promoting best practices in AngularJS development - Provide mentorship, code reviews, best practices to other front end developers and team members. - Performed full stack responsibilities (Flask API endpoints) when and where necessary.

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   CODERS4AFRICA INC

   • VP Engineering

     Jan 2014 - Aug 2016 · 2 yrs 8 mos·Remote

     We are experts in software cross-platform development and we deliver high quality web and mobile app solutions to clients across the globe. Our technical teams are pan african and distributed across Senegal, Ghana, Kenya and Ethiopia. We adopt the latest tools and technologies to develop software and applications across various industry verticals. - Manage app projects from inception to delivery. - Interface with clients and manage expectations. - Lead technology evolution of the company. - Train and mentor Jr and mid level developers. - Help plan, define and implement company wide expansion strategy.

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    Millennial Media

    • Lead UI Engineer

      Jul 2012 - Oct 2014 · 2 yrs 4 mos·Baltimore, Maryland Area

      Lead UI development efforts on various internal/external Millennial Media applications using AngularJS, ExtJS and Grails. -Implement various features on an internal reporting application using the MEAN stack -Implement dashboard with visualization features using AngularJS and D3.

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    Salsa Labs, Inc.

    • Senior Application Developer

      Oct 2011 - Jul 2012 · 10 mos·Washington D.C. Metro Area

      Subscription management Javascript development interfacing with MongoDB.

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    Goalface.com

    • Lead UI Developer

      Apr 2011 - Apr 2012 · 1 yr 1 mo

      Lead UI development efforts on GoalFace.com. Implement UX design strategy relying on best practices in the industry and a combination of tools and technologies including but not limited to Zend PHPFramework, HTML, CSS, and Javascript (JQuery).

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    Metters

    • J2EE Developer

      Apr 2011 - Oct 2011 · 7 mos·Silver Spring

      Provide MyHealtheVet 508, UX and Business Requirements team with technical support related to the resolution of outstanding issues, bugs and defects.

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    SRA International

    • Senior User Interface Developer

      Jul 2010 - Apr 2011 · 10 mos

      •Develop the front-end user interface for Java-based web applications using Java Server Pages (JSP), Struts/JSF/Spring, (X)HTML, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and Javascript (Ajax, JQuery) •Develop HTML/CSS-based mockups for new applications to help validate the design and conduct usability testing prior to detailed software development •Taking direction from and collaborating with information architect and software developers •Develop a standard set of JSP, CSS, and Javascript/JQuery(ExtJS) libraries and HTML templates for use throughout the full application suite. •Using frameworks and libraries to make the UI development more efficient

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    Office of the Comptroller of the Currency

    • Percussion Developer

      Feb 2010 - Jul 2010 · 6 mos·Washington DC

      Helps in the transition of the Rhythmyx/Arbotext CMS implementation to UAT by fixing bugs in content items and templates using HTML, CSS and Velocity Template Language.

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    GSA

    • PHP Developer

      Nov 2009 - Feb 2010 · 4 mos

      Provide Development and Support for the General Services Administration (GSA), Office of Citizens Services (OCS) and its external customer-agencies with web-based IT solutions offered using the Software as a Service (SaaS) business model, in which GSA/OCS will offer Federal Agencies a variety of pre-defined and developed services and service-options (such as Wiki, Blog and Forum services).

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    Department of Labour

    • J2EE Developer

      Jun 2009 - Aug 2009 · 3 mos

      NCFMS manage the general ledger database to keep track of all commitments and obligations in order to provide a real-time interface to the financial data of the current E-Procurement System. The development environment at DOL is: Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft IIS, JRun Server, COTS CommerceOne’s Procurement System, and Java Web Service architecture. Worked on the refactoring of an existing Axis 1.2 web service to enable proper operation against an updated WSDL. Provided technical support to the production system by resolving outstanding bugs. Created a SQL Server stored procedure to support required functionality. Made various functional updates to the UI (JSPs).

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    Aquilent

    • Technical Consultant

      Dec 2007 - Jul 2010 · 2 yrs 8 mos

      Provide J2EE and Web Development knowledge and expertise as required on a variety of government projects.

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    Department of Veterans Affairs

    • J2EE Developer

      Dec 2007 - Nov 2009 · 2 yrs

      VOA is an online application for health benefits that will enable veterans to fully complete and submit their requests for benefits and will allow them to maintain their personal information. Designed, Developed and implemented a functional prototype using Apache Beehive and NetUI technologies. Researched, tested and documented set up of development environment for the project, which included Weblogic server setup and Workshop configuration. Designed and actively implemented the project’s UI and presentation tier in a Weblogic Portal environment including the Portal’s page, portlets and layout (NetUI Template) and styling of the UI. Implemented the application flow and logic using a Pageflow Portlet. Implemented Inter Portlet Communication between portlets in the UI using PageFlow events and backing files. Refactored the Portal application as an Apache Beehive project. Implemented a Single Sign On cookie based solution to maintain user login status between applications. Implemented a servlet to process unfinished tasks and delete expired objects. Used a TDD development approach during the implementation of requirements with creation of JUnit Tests for all implemented features where possible (JUnit for code modules tests and Cactus for Struts/Pageflow related tests). Implemented dynamic UI elements (removable widgets) as well as required Ajax functionality in particular widgets using Prototype and Scriptaculous frameworks. Participated in the implementation of a non-Javascript version of the application offering similar capabilities. Offered creative and timely solutions in the resolution of application’s bugs. Produced User Interface Design documentation. Updated an existing Axis Web Service client to match the updated WSDL on the client side. Researched and documented alternative solutions affecting the project’s roll out (Single Sign On solutions, project’s presentation tier strategies like JSR 148, WSDL).

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    SmartLogic Solutions

    • Web Developer

      Dec 2006 - Dec 2007 · 1 yr 1 mo

      Designed and implemented a scheduling web application for the Calendar portion of the Internal Appointment Management System (IAMS) in DHTML and Javascript using Jackbe’s JackBuilder. Implemented AJAX calls to the data layer to improve user’s interaction with the application as well as the application’s response time and minimize load times. Implemented backend access to PCML based AS400 legacy system including DAO design and implementation. Implemented LDAP authentication for the application Designed and implemented additional printing feature which included formatting the data according to a specified template. Oversaw application testing and deployment to integration environment. Gathered functional requirements for a EHR application Suggested and implemented upgrades to components’ functionality. Refactored existing server side code to take advantage of AJAX features. Redesigned front end code to utilize AJAX features using Prototype.js API. Added visual notifications using Scriptaculous graphic library. Oversaw finished product’s integration with production application. Wrote technical document explaining the process and the changes made for future duplication and debugging.

Education

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   University of Maryland Baltimore CountyMasters of Science, Information Systems2011 - 2013

   Grade: A Took courses in Management Information Systems Enterprise Wide Computing and Front End Archictecture Information Architecture Database Management Systems Computer and Network Security Structured System Design and Analysis Data Mining

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   California State University, BakersfieldBachelor, Computer Science1999 - 2003

Skills