Grant Isom

Resume

Senior Engineering Manager - RealWork Labs

June 2024 – Present

  • Introduced a new product and engineering process, Shape Up, increasing our major releases by 2x YOY.
  • Leading hiring effort growing the engineering team by double its initial size.
  • Leading product and engineering effort introducing integrations with CRM’s leading to multiple sales records month over month.
  • Developed career ladder for engineering organization.

Lead Mobile Engineer - RealWork Labs

September 2022 – June 2024

  • Led the development and design of the mobile app and services for our core product.
  • Designed and implemented a video processing pipeline for both the mobile and web products handling 100’s of videos per day.
  • Launched a new react native mobile application within 4 months of joining, scaled to 1,000+ customers within first year.
  • Established and championed CI/CD best practices across engineering team leading to push-button releases on weekly cadence.

Desktop and Mobile App Developer - myHomework

July 2016 – Present

  • Built new features and maintained existing apps on iOS, MacOS, and Android as only engineer during 5+ year period.
  • Top 50 Education app on MacOS App Store, hit #1 multiple times over past 8 years. Top 100 Education app on iOS App Store.
  • Helped transition product from B2C to B2B with over 1M monthly active users.

Head of Engineering - Illuminate AI

July 2020 – September 2022

  • Led development of an AI platform used to discover missed aneurysms and solid cancers. Clients included UMass and UC Davis.
  • Over 10 surgeries performed the first year of use and 100’s of other patients enrolled in monitoring programs due to our outcomes.
  • Grew engineering team to 11 software engineers, data scientists, and site reliability engineers.
  • Created data labeling application to quickly build out massive datasets of labeled clinical data for training new ML models.
  • Led SOC 2 compliance effort to gain access to Social Security’s DMF Index.

Team Lead | Senior Software Engineer - Cerner (Oracle Health)

June 2016 – July 2020

  • Managed a team of 5 engineers, while leading development on patient-centric mobile applications.
  • Created white-labeling internal product to deliver over 50+ patient portal native iOS and Android applications to clients.
  • Worked directly with Apple on HealthKit integrations.
  • Developed mentorship programs and knowledge-sharing initiatives within the engineering org.

CoFounder - Caliber KC, Kansas City, MO

January 2016 – January 2017

  • Mobile software consulting focused on helping University of Kansas students find meaningful work before starting their professional careers.

Software Engineer Intern - Various Companies (Cerner, Knoda, Cerner)

May 2013 – August 2015

  • Contributed to multiple projects, including web apps and mobile applications.
  • Gained experience in diverse tech stacks and development environments.

Education

B.S. in Computer Science - University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
Niehaus Computer Science Design Award Winner - 2016.

Volunteering

Sporting Blue Valley - Team Soccer, Jun β€˜16 - Present

  • Contributing time on the weekends to a program dedicated to empowering individuals with physical and/or mental disabilities, enabling them to learn and enjoy the game of soccer.

Skills

Swift, React Native, Objective-C, iOS Development, Web Development, Capacity Planning, CI/CD, Design Patterns, MacOS Development, Android Development, C#, Solr, Agile, Team Management & Planning, Leadership, Kotlin, Java, React, Typescript, Expo, Github Actions