Michael Cordell

Senior-most technology leader at the company, reporting to the Chief Product Officer. Grew engineering from 19 to 55 engineers and managers building the software platform for healthcare quality-of-care data, and owned a ~$7.5M annual budget including $1.5M in cloud spend. Promoted from Director to VP in 2020; the role continued at MRO after the June 2025 acquisition.

• Built the technology platform and delivery process behind the company’s shift from a services business to a data and technology business, including a standalone data abstraction and registry reporting product. Over that period, revenue grew from $49M to $130M per year and technology became the fastest-growing and second-largest revenue line.
• Led technical sell-side diligence for the 2018 and 2025 company sales. Ran technical diligence and integration on three product acquisitions, including a seven-engineer team whose legacy stack moved to the cloud and cut $500K in yearly costs.
• Developed and deployed first-generation LLM-backed automated abstraction, with results showing 20% efficiency gains. This work became the foundation for Prodigy.
• Built data engineering, data science, DevOps, and UI/UX practices from a team of generalist web engineers, including NLP projects that automated parts of service delivery.
• Co-owned SOC 2 certification and ongoing compliance, and ran the platform at 99.99% uptime.
• Represented engineering in customer and sales conversations with hospital and health system buyers.
• Introduced incident response playbooks, standardized interviews, a career ladder, and a cross-team SDLC. Department eNPS was 62.

Architected the framework for rapid development of medical data abstraction software and used it to build and release multiple products for the quality-of-care market. That framework and its applications became the foundation of the company's data and technology offerings.

• Tech lead for delivery of applications built on the framework (Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, GraphQL, Ember and React, AWS).

• Active and significant contributions to two commerce-focused Rails applications, multiple PHP applications, and a ruby gem
• Worked within an Open Allocation style of management, which entails:
  • enhanced project management skills
  • simultaneous engagement across multiple projects
  • continuous effective interdepartmental collaboration and communication
• Lead engineer on three successfully executed long-term projects under Open Allocation

• Designed and deployed a group of websites for the Sei Querce Vineyards’ product line
• Work included literature research and synthesis for a book on nutrition
• Built a custom content management system for the Six Oaks Farm branch of Sei Querce Vineyards
  • Application written in PHP using the Yii framework and MVC principles
  • Includes both an in-app management and emailing of weekly harvest updates

• Autonomously developed and executed a functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging(fMRI) study on changes in appetitive behavior and neural circuitry underlying these changes.
  • Study focused on changes in appetitive behavior and neural circuitry underlying these changes
  • The experiment required sound planning and people management skills including: protocol development, subject screening, recruitment, and MRI scanning
• Sole programmer for all scripts across the entire continuum of the experiment
  • Wrote stimuli presentation and data collection scripts in MATLAB. This was challenging due to the granularity required in time-tracking and coordination with the fMRI scanner.
  • Data analysis scripts combined shell, MATLAB, and Python which drove the fMRIB software library.

Designed, programmed, and implemented a series of Flash-based immunology cases for use in U.C.S.B professor’s medical immunology class

• Product was a game that graded students on their ability to correctly diagnose a patient through symptom presentation and diagnostic tests
• Underlying game logic was written in Action Script and included approximately 20 scenarios with 30 different diagnostic tests
• Crafted the underlying SQL queries to store users and scores in a MySQL database