Healthcasts — Platform Modernization
Team Lead · 2022–2024
Impact: Baseline: slow publishing + fragmented auth → intervention: Strapi/React pipeline + Auth0 unification → outcome: engagement extended into a 4-year partnership.
Brought in as tech lead to modernize Healthcasts' core publication workflow and platform infrastructure.
Built a new publishing pipeline around a headless CMS (Strapi) and a custom React rendering layer, dramatically reducing time-to-publish for their core medical consensus deliverable. Updated AWS infrastructure and migrated frameworks to current, supported versions. Then led a full authentication overhaul — unifying login across all their platforms with Auth0, moving to a single secure flow that also unblocked a parallel AI initiative dependent on a cleaner identity layer.
The MVP engagement grew into a four-year collaboration — a rare signal that the work held up under real production conditions.
Constraints
- Legacy platform and publishing workflow friction
- Auth fragmentation across multiple product surfaces
Key decisions
- Built Strapi + React publishing pipeline for faster editorial throughput
- Modernized AWS/framework stack to supported versions
- Unified authentication with Auth0 across platforms
Tradeoffs
- Phased modernization to keep production operations stable
- Deferred non-critical polish while unblocking identity-dependent initiatives
Results
- Before: slower publishing workflow. After: faster time-to-publish for core medical deliverables.
- Before: fragmented auth. After: single secure login flow across platforms.
- Initial MVP engagement extended into a four-year delivery partnership.