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Healthcare

Regulated Healthcare Platform Leadership

CTO of AZZLY, a regulated behavioral-health EHR and RCM platform, for 3 years. The company was acquired by an a16z-backed Series A AI-native company, and the platform was selected as the technical foundation after the transaction.

Role: CTO, AZZLY
Fractional CTOPlatform EngineeringData PlatformTechnical DiligenceRegulated Software
as CTO of a regulated platform
3yr
to build the full data platform
~10wk
engineers managed across stack
20+
as foundation after acquisition
Selected

The Engagement

As CTO of the platform for 3 years, TeqEngine managed 20+ engineers while simultaneously building 8 production systems from scratch, spanning the full stack from Angular frontend to Node.js APIs to PySpark notebooks to cloud infrastructure.

The work ran the full depth of a regulated clinical platform — HL7-based order entry and lab results, embedded telehealth, and a bidirectional patient portal — through to the data warehouse and reporting layer underneath it.

This dual role — managing the engineering organization while delivering the most complex technical work — defined the engagement. We owned architecture decisions, team leadership, and hands-on delivery across 10 repositories.

The Acquisition

In 2025 the company was acquired by an a16z-backed Series A AI-native company. The acquiring team selected the platform we built as a core technical foundation for the next phase of the product.

TeqEngine led the technical due diligence for the acquisition, presenting the technology to the acquiring team. The platform was selected as the core technology foundation after the transaction — a direct validation of the architecture, quality, and scalability of the technology we built.

Engagement Timeline

A multi-year engagement as CTO of a regulated healthcare platform, through to its acquisition.

CTO
Owned the Platform
Owned the engineering team, architecture, and technical strategy across the full stack
2023
Built Telehealth & Patient Portal
Created two new production systems during peak COVID demand
2024
Led Data Platform Build
Delivered the entire Microsoft Fabric data warehouse from scratch in roughly 10 weeks
2025
Acquired by an a16z-Backed Company
Led technical due diligence through the acquisition by a Series A AI-native company. The platform was selected as the technical foundation after the transaction.

Systems Built From Scratch

Each system was created, architected, and solely owned by TeqEngine.

Microsoft Fabric Data Platform

Dozens of Spark notebooks and Power BI reports, a full semantic model layer, medallion architecture, and automated CI/CD — built from scratch in roughly 10 weeks

Power BI Embedded Reporting

Modern reporting suite with row-level security replacing a legacy reporting system

Telehealth Video Platform

In-app video consultations embedded directly into the EHR and web application (Zoom-based), built during peak COVID to enable remote care without leaving the clinical workflow

Patient Portal

Transformed a provider-only application into a full patient portal — bidirectional patient–provider messaging and document exchange, built from scratch

CPOE & Labs Integration (HL7)

Clinical Provider Order Entry and lab-results integration over HL7, with bidirectional ordering and result delivery across the platform

eFax System

Third-party eFax integration replacing manual faxing workflows

eChart PDF Rendering Engine

Clinical form PDF generation pipeline used by every provider on the platform

SSO Authentication

Azure AD B2C single sign-on for partner platform integration

The Data Platform Story

TeqEngine built the company's entire data platform on Microsoft Fabric — the full data warehouse and analytics infrastructure — from scratch in roughly 10 weeks.

End-to-end
data warehouse
Dozens
notebooks & reports
Medallion
architecture
~10 wk
delivery time

A full production data platform, designed and built from scratch in roughly 10 weeks.

The Results

Platform Selected as Core Foundation

The platform was selected as the core technology foundation after the acquisition — a direct validation of architecture quality.

CTO + Highest-Output IC

Managed 20+ engineers while simultaneously owning the most complex technical delivery — architecture, data platform, and 8 production systems built from scratch.

End-to-End Data Platform

Designed and built the company's entire Microsoft Fabric data platform from scratch — data warehouse, analytics, and reporting — in roughly 10 weeks.

Rapid Data Platform Delivery

Delivered the full Microsoft Fabric data platform — dozens of Spark notebooks and Power BI reports on a medallion architecture — in roughly 10 weeks.

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