Experience and selected work

Jeff Hooton

Head of Engineering, nine years in. Deepest in Laravel, Vue, and Inertia, currently building a HIPAA-scoped TypeScript monorepo for outpatient behavioral health, plus Go developer tooling on the side.

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Location: Columbus, Ohio
Remote, US timezones
Email: jeffreydhooton@gmail.com
Code: github.com/jeffdhooton
Experience: Nine years, since 2017
5 roles

Experience

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May 2026 to now

Senior Full-Stack Engineer

Independent Contract (Healthcare Platform)

Architect and majority author, with one partner engineer, of a TypeScript monorepo (React + Vite, Fastify API, Postgres via Drizzle, pnpm + Turborepo) delivering an operations and clinical-quality platform for outpatient behavioral-health programs.
Built the payor integration layer: HL7 claim submission with ACK handling, and X12-835 remittance parsing that posts payments, reconciles them against open claims, and recalculates accounts receivable.
Designed the authorization spine: JWT authentication with authorization resolved from a user directory rather than token claims, eight role-scoped surfaces, per-program tenant isolation, and server-side redaction that strips financial fields and PHI before responses leave the API.
Owned the Postgres schema and Drizzle migrations, with database tests run against the real migration files, and made RBAC, redaction, and audit coverage a required CI gate across 112 test suites.

Stack

TypeScript, React, Node, Postgres, Healthcare

Apr 2024 to now

Partner and Head of Engineering

Sky High Visions

Primary hands-on engineer across 30+ client engagements while coordinating a team of five, owning architecture through delivery and mentoring engineers via code review and pairing.
Introduced CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and code-review standards to a team that had none. Manual deploys became a reviewed, gated pipeline.
Led refactors of inherited client codebases that turned recurring production incidents into a stable baseline, and built LLM-powered content generation on RAG, embeddings, and vector search.

Stack

Laravel, Vue, Shopify, WordPress, Tailwind

Oct 2021 to Mar 2024

Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer

Loop Returns

Led development of Edit Return for 3,500+ e-commerce brands, which lets shoppers and support agents modify returns in flight on a platform that processes 2M+ returns monthly.
Designed and shipped Loop's first embedded Shopify app, which put return and exchange benchmarking inside the Shopify admin.
Rebuilt gift-return flows for peak-season traffic in a Laravel and Vue codebase that moved into TypeScript as the front end modernized.

Stack

Laravel, Vue.js, Shopify, Full-Stack Development

Jul 2019 to Oct 2021

Platform Software Engineer

WillowTree

Built React and TypeScript front ends for Fortune 500 clients including Marriott, the NBA, Dairy Queen, and Qdoba.
Delivered features under enterprise performance, accessibility, and compliance requirements across several concurrent engagements.

Stack

Full-Stack Development, Agency

Sep 2017 to Jul 2019

Web Developer

Stodzy Internet Marketing

Built and maintained client web properties in WordPress, PHP, and JavaScript for a digital marketing agency.

Stack

Full-Stack Development, WordPress

Skills

Ordered by depth

Languages

TypeScript, JavaScript, PHP, Go, SQL

Nine years across four production stacks

Frontend

React, Next.js, Vite, Vue, Nuxt, Inertia, Tailwind

Vue and Inertia are the deepest of these

Backend and data

Node.js, Fastify, NestJS, Laravel, REST APIs, Postgres, Drizzle, MySQL, Redis

Schema through UI, including the migrations

Healthcare

HL7, X12-835 claims and remittance, PHI redaction, audit logging, HIPAA-aware design

Regulated data, in production, under NDA where required

AI and practices

RAG, embeddings, vector search, MCP, automated testing, CI/CD, code review, RBAC gates

Scry, Trawl, and 112 CI suites on the healthcare platform

Selected projects

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2026 to now	Clinical ops platformNDA client	HL7 claim submission and X12-835 remittance parsing, eight role-scoped surfaces, server-side PHI redaction. TypeScript monorepo: React, Fastify, Postgres via Drizzle.	Live
2024 to now	ScryOpen source	A Go daemon that pre-computes code intelligence across five domains and serves 23 MCP tools in single-digit milliseconds.	Go
2026 to now	TrawlOpen source	A single Go binary for tiered web scraping, with per-host tier learning, resumable crawls, and clean markdown for LLM pipelines.	Go
2026 to now	ChildScribeMy product	A weekly AI voice interview that becomes a private journal entry and a printed memory book. Laravel, Inertia, and Vue on the web, Expo on mobile.	Beta
2026 to now	PH Cleaning CoMy company	A Columbus cleaning company and the software that runs it: instant flat-rate quoting, local SEO, and a dispatch app. Astro on Cloudflare Workers.	Live

What I'm looking for

A senior IC role where the hard problems are the point: integrations that cannot fail, regulated data, and latency budgets that force real decisions. I want to keep writing the difficult code rather than stop to manage the people writing it.

Level: Senior individual contributor
Location: Remote, US timezones
Depth: Laravel and Vue, TypeScript and React
Not looking for: Pure management