Jesse Taavola's Resume

Jesse Taavola

Full stack software engineer

St. Paul, MN

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

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

2025 - Present

Co-founder & CTO

Building AI management for healthcare clinics.
  • Architected the full platform end-to-end as sole technical co-founder.
  • Built multi-channel patient-facing AI agents that serve as the clinic's digital front door and automate clinical operations.
  • Designed and implemented custom LLM pipelines, optimized for accuracy and compliance in healthcare context.

Optum

2020 - 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

2019 - 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

2016 - 2019
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science

Skills

  • AI SDK
  • LLM Evals
  • RAG
  • AI Agents
  • React
  • Mobile Development
  • React Native
  • TypeScript
  • Node.js
  • Java
  • Python
  • TanStack
  • GraphQL
  • Postgres
  • GitHub Actions
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • AWS
  • SST

Side projects

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

Process astrophotography data from multiple nights using Siril

  • Python
  • CLI

Hockee
github.comjtaavola/hockee

Exploring the Elixir language and Phoenix framework with a simple UI for NHL scores

  • Elixir
  • Phoenix
  • Tailwind CSS

Breathe
github.comjtaavola/breathe/

Simple breathing animations

  • React

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