Kyle Friel

Full-stack Engineer

About

Full-stack Engineer with 5+ years of experience owning complex product systems end-to-end, spanning healthcare compliance, real-time scheduling, analytics, and revenue-driving platforms.

Experience

  1. Apr 2025 — Jan 2026

    Software Engineer II · BetterHelp

    • Drove technical knowledge transfer as an early UpLift engineer during its $45M acquisition by BetterHelp, implementing insurance infrastructure that expanded the platform beyond self-pay
    • Architected and built billable Intake and Progress Notes using Next.js and TypeScript, introducing structured data, AI-assisted narratives, and safety workflows to improve audit compliance
    • Built a real-time scheduling experience allowing clients to book sessions with therapists or psychiatrists based on team availability, featuring live calendar slots and dashboard notifications
    • Delivered UTM-driven onboarding attribution with Python, Flask, and PostgreSQL, enabling reliable conversion and step-level drop-off analysis for marketing teams
    • Next.js
    • TypeScript
    • Tailwind CSS
    • Python
    • Flask
    • PostgreSQL
    • Docker
  2. Feb 2022 — Apr 2025

    Software Engineer · UpLift

    • Developed a multi-step onboarding and matching flow using React, TypeScript, and XState, improving care triage and addressing 53% drop-off in the highest-impact funnel stage
    • Built a provider onboarding and profile lifecycle experience with editable forms, submission states, and admin review feedback, supporting iterative updates and approval-driven publishing
    • Implemented a responsive insurance management flow for primary and secondary coverage, enforcing strict business rules across commercial, Medicare, and Medicaid plans
    • Architected a Zoom SDK live session experience replacing Twilio, including a therapist-facing video layout with in-session sidebar tools for notes, client data, and workflow efficiency
    • Empowered other devs on the team through leadership by interviewing candidates, mentoring junior engineers, engaging in code reviews, and setting standards for codebase best practices
    • React
    • TypeScript
    • TanStack Query
    • Material UI
    • Python
    • Flask
    • PostgreSQL
    • Zoom SDK
    • Twilio
    • Docker
  3. Aug 2019 — Feb 2022

    Lead Engineer · Astro Vinyl Art

    • Designed and built a logistics web application unifying event scheduling, inventory, warehouse picking, and sales workflows, driving 150% YoY ARR growth using React, TypeScript, Node.js
    • Scaled engineering output by hiring and mentoring an engineer to own core features, enforce code quality, and lead code reviews
    • Built a mobile-friendly POS system backed by a Node.js, Express, and TypeScript API, tracking 300k+ sales and inventory updates and integrating seamlessly with the Shopify API
    • Improved analytics performance by 600% by optimizing MongoDB queries and data access patterns for high-volume reporting on custom MUI chart components
    • Established CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, set up staging environments, led cross-functional development in Jira, and integrated AWS, Google APIs, Cloudinary, and Firebase
    • React
    • TypeScript
    • TanStack Query
    • Material UI
    • Node.js
    • Express.js
    • MongoDB
    • AWS
    • GitHub Actions
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Projects

  1. AI Automation Education

    Grew a YouTube channel teaching AI and no-code automation (n8n, LLM workflows), reaching thousands of learners through hands-on tutorials and real-world use cases.
    • n8n
    • LLMs
    • APIs
    • AI Agents
  2. Cyan Stack — Independent Software Consulting

    Built custom full-stack software and automation solutions for clients, handling architecture, integrations, distributed systems, and deployment.
    • React
    • Next.js
    • TypeScript
    • Tailwind CSS
    • Node.js
    • Express.js
    • PostgreSQL
    • MongoDB
    • AWS
    • Docker