Jesse Taavola's Resume

Jesse Taavola

Full stack software engineer

St. Paul, MN

  • GitHub
  • LinkedIn
jessetaavola.com/jesse@taavola.dev/github.com/jtaavola

About

Engineer turned founder with 7+ years of experience. Building AI management for healthcare clinics at Loom Health. Full stack with deep focus on applied AI.

Work Experience

Loom Health

Sep 2025 - Present

Technical Co-founder

Building AI management for healthcare clinics.
  • Architected the full platform end-to-end as sole technical co-founder.
  • Partnered with top telehealth clinics on pilots validating AI agents in real-world care delivery workflows.
  • Built multi-channel patient-facing AI agents that serve as the clinic's digital front door and automate clinical operations.
  • Designed custom LLM workflows with guardrails, evals, and healthcare-specific compliance controls.

Optum

Jan 2020 - Sep 2025

Senior Software Engineer

Led a development team building member-facing healthcare tools.
  • Built a rideshare scheduling platform serving tens of thousands of UHC members, significantly reducing inbound call volume by enabling self-service trip booking and management.
  • Built a patient-facing care checklist platform from scratch, serving hundreds of thousands of UHC members and reducing missed care steps.
  • Rebuilt the team's CI/CD pipelines with canary deployments, replacing unreliable automation and reducing production incidents while accelerating release cycles.

Optum

Jun 2019 - Aug 2019

Technology Development Program Intern

  • Developed a REST API for a technology landscape that improved enterprise decisions and data solution availability
  • Implemented a data visualization dashboard to identify imbalances in cataloged technologies

Education

University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

Sep 2016 - Dec 2019
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science

Skills

  • AI SDK
  • LLM Evals
  • RAG
  • AI Agents
  • React
  • Next.js
  • Mobile Development
  • React Native
  • TypeScript
  • Node.js
  • Express
  • Hono
  • REST APIs
  • Go
  • Java
  • Python
  • TanStack
  • GraphQL
  • Kafka
  • Postgres
  • GitHub Actions
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • AWS
  • SST

Side projects

Puckwise
github.comjtaavola/puckwise

AI hockey analytics chat assistant powered by live NHL data

  • AI SDK
  • TypeScript
  • TanStack

Zodify
github.comjtaavola/zodify

CLI tool to convert sample JSON responses into Zod schemas

  • TypeScript
  • CLI

siril-multi-night
github.comjtaavola/siril-multi-night

Process astrophotography data from multiple nights using Siril

  • Python
  • CLI

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