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Edward McNichols

Experience

A track record of building, shipping, and scaling

Founder & Engineer

Prepline · Remote

2026Present

High-school football ratings engine and simulation-only paper sportsbook covering 1,328 schools. Built to become the data layer for prep football — sponsorship, engine licensing, and a seed raise in progress.

  • Designed Elo/Glicko rating system and possession-based score simulator calibrated to real football's key-number distribution
  • Built a college-rules sportsbook layer — tick-grid odds, joint-distribution parlay pricing, LMSR risk limits, closing-line value — with AST-level compliance tests that block any money primitive
  • Shipped /matchup: price any two schools from a shareable link, with the verdict carried in the Open Graph card
  • Stood up authenticated contributor and reviewer roles so verified coaches can submit real results; real facts are always shown apart from simulated ones
  • 1,796 backend tests; weekly rating rebuilds on Railway cron; separate staging and production environments
  • Authored an 18-slide seed deck for a $235k raise; milestone is 100 of 249 Texas 6A programs
PythonFastAPIPostgreSQLAlembicNext.jsRailwayVercelpytest

Founder & Engineer

Caffinate · Remote

2026Present

Open-source (MIT) app store for AI workflows: build, fork, and monetize workflows, backed by a distributed compute grid and $CAFF token rewards. Designed and engineered the entire platform solo — product, architecture, and every line of the monorepo. Marketplace fees and token economics are the revenue model.

  • 1,200-commit monorepo spanning a creator terminal, no-code workflow builder with multi-step execution engine, and native desktop (Tauri), mobile (React Native), and web clients
  • Express + Drizzle/Prisma API on PostgreSQL with Redis + BullMQ queues, usage-based billing, and on-chain settlement scaffolding on Solana
  • Designed token allocation, vesting, and anti-farm economic invariants; simulated treasury sustainability before launch
  • Built the operator console (Caffinate Ops Hub), a browser game hub (Arcade), and a compute-farming demo (Roast) on the same platform
  • Cross-platform CI producing installers per release
Next.jsReact NativeTauriExpressPostgreSQLRedis + BullMQSolana / web3Turborepo

Lead Engineer & Owner

Thai Health Tourism Macro (Adkins Labs) · Remote · Bangkok market

2026Present

B2B remote patient monitoring platform sold to JCI-accredited Thai hospitals: post-operative monitoring for international medical-tourism patients during their first 30 days after surgery. Enterprise SaaS with a 24-hospital target pipeline.

  • Multi-tenant architecture with per-hospital subdomains, pathway-specific alerting, SBAR acknowledgement workflows, and an audit viewer
  • Multilingual patient PWA and Expo mobile companion for the post-discharge window
  • Enterprise hardening: rate limiting, CSRF, AES-256-GCM field encryption, account lockout, full audit trail — aligned to Thailand's PDPA
  • Partner package generators (DOCX/PPTX/XLSX/PDF), procurement documents, master business plan, and an investor site live at adkinslabs.dev
  • 459 commits, 82 test files, CI on GitHub Actions
Next.js 15ExpressDrizzle ORMPostgreSQL (Neon)Expo / React NativeTurborepoVercel + Render

Founder

Grovefund · Remote

2026Present

Education-savings platform where families and brand sponsors fund children's education, pivoted from a custodial fintech (FutureFund) to a 501(c)(3) model to tap corporate CSR budgets.

  • Shipped public child fund pages, express donations, Stripe Checkout and Customer Portal, HMAC-signed receipts with IRS disclosure, and annual giving statements
  • Built a corporate sponsorship track with cohort-level attribution for CSR programs
  • Fintech-grade hardening: idempotency keys, Postgres token-bucket rate limiting, at-least-once email outbox on Vercel Cron, PII-masked logging
  • Live at grovefund.org
Next.js 15PrismaNeon PostgresStripeNextAuthVercel Blob + Cron

Founder (pre-launch)

Mobile Respiratory Therapy & Sleep Medicine · South Dakota

2026Present

Mobile respiratory therapy, sleep medicine, and DME business for rural South Dakota COPD and sleep-apnea patients, targeting a 2028 launch alongside an RT credential. Structured as DME supply plus a physician-supervised RPM annuity, with in-home delivery as the differentiator.

  • Cited deep-research report sizing ~36,000 SD adults with diagnosed COPD and a documented rural RT shortage
  • Operating plan with a four-gate path-to-exit sensitivity model (DME roll-up acquisition)
  • 8-tab live-formula financial model — base case reaches ~$1M revenue and 23% adjusted EBITDA by year five
  • Reuses the RPM software built for the sleep-medicine platform as the technology moat
Operating planFinancial modelingRPM billing (99453–99458)DMEPOS accreditation

Founder & CEO

Pneuma Health · Remote

2025Present

Building a direct-to-consumer telehealth platform focused on sleep apnea diagnosis and treatment. Architecting the full operation: clinical workflows, brand strategy, content pipeline, regulatory compliance, and a 12-tool internal ops platform.

  • Architected full-stack telehealth platform (SleepVault) from zero to production with Next.js, Supabase, Stripe, and Claude API
  • Built 12-tool internal operations platform replacing ~$1,800/month in SaaS — CRM, compliance, revenue modeling, market analytics, content management
  • Designed 3-entity brand architecture (HoldCo, D2C, MSO) for scalable healthcare operations across 16 states
  • Developed content-first launch strategy with automated production pipeline reducing content creation time by 80%
  • Engineered AI-powered clinical intake that improved completion rates 40% over traditional forms
  • Added a remote patient monitoring vertical (CPT 99454/99457) with automated care-management billing and FHIR-based EHR interoperability — 375 passing tests
Next.jsTypeScriptSupabaseStripeClaude APIVercelTailwindPrisma

Founder & Lead Engineer

AdkinsLabs · Remote

2024Present

Personal innovation lab and the operating umbrella for my ventures. Builds and runs a portfolio of revenue-capable software as a solo founder-engineer, using AI-augmented development to ship at small-team pace.

  • ForkScore — video-to-recipe PWA with a 3-layer AI extraction pipeline; live with Pro subscriptions at 89% gross margin
  • SolarScope — solar lead-generation SaaS on county property records; Pro tier at $29/mo, live at solarscope.tools
  • BriefCraft — AI scoping chatbot for freelance designers with streaming responses and BYOK pricing tiers
  • Service Industry CFO — restaurant financial-intelligence dashboard with automated menu engineering
  • Shipped four production products in a single week (March 2026) across four industries
Next.jsTypeScriptSupabasePrismaStripeClaude APIVercel

Skills & Expertise

Technical depth across the stack, applied to real shipped products

Prompt EngineeringSolo Founder OperationsTypeScriptReact / Next.jsTailwind CSSProduct ManagementAI/LLM IntegrationGit / GitHubAgile / ScrumStakeholder ManagementNode.js / ExpressGo-to-Market StrategyMulti-Model PipelinesAI Agent ArchitectureVercel / AWSSupabase / PostgreSQLSQL / PrismaUser ResearchRevenue ModelingStripe / PaymentsData AnalyticsFundraising / PitchingReact Native / ExpoFigma

Career Journey

Key milestones along the way

2024

Founded AdkinsLabs

Launched personal innovation lab to build AI-powered products, developer tools, and workflow automation systems.

2025

Founded Pneuma Health

Started building a DTC telehealth platform for sleep apnea, including a 12-tool internal operations platform and 16-state compliance framework.

2026

Caffinate, THTM & Grovefund

Founded three revenue-capable ventures in one spring: an open-source AI-workflow marketplace, a B2B remote-monitoring platform for Thai hospitals, and an education-savings nonprofit platform.

2026

Prepline Goes Live

Launched a high-school football ratings engine and paper sportsbook covering 1,328 schools, with a seed raise underway.

2026

28 Projects Showcased

Portfolio grew to 28 projects — products, internal tools, ventures, and experiments — including a five-product launch week in March, proving AI-augmented solo development can match small-team output.

Education

Formal credentials

Education

Bachelor of Science in Economics

University of Colorado Boulder