Xinjiang Shao
I build healthcare platforms that can't afford to fail, and grow the teams behind them. Fourteen-plus years across healthcare, e-commerce, and sports technology.
Experience
The Aspen Group
Chicago, IL · HealthcareLeading and driving architectural modernization across healthcare brands.
- Lead a 30+ engineer organization across five brands and 1,400+ locations in 48 states as lead of all technical leaders, guiding large digital initiatives across Aspen Dental, ClearChoice, Chapter, LoVet and other TAG brands and resolving production issues before they spread
- Spearheading AI development on the web; in December 2025 built the first iteration of the MCP servers for Aspen Dental and ClearChoice appointment scheduling
- Architect the Patient Portal platform serving 500K monthly active visitors and 110K monthly active patients
- Delivered Patient Portal 2.0 and the patient identity platform (September 2026): the portal rebuilt on Next.js 16, and sign-in moved to Auth0 and Twilio Verify with MFA. First month: 100K+ patient accounts, median sign-in down from about a minute to under 20 seconds, more than 8 in 10 sign-up starts completed, over a third of MFA enrollments on passkeys, and 8+ existing microservices on the new tokens with none replaced
- Improved the portal's Core Web Vitals with the rebuild: p75 LCP down by about a third and layout shift from poor to good, so all three now pass, with error-page sessions down by more than two thirds
- Shipped new Patient Portal features: document download for medical record requests (piloted in 30 offices, then launched to all offices), treatment plans, and online payments integrated with RevSpring
- Hardened and sharpened the booking funnel: fraud detection with TransUnion products to keep bots and fake appointments out, and Intelligent Scheduling (early 2026), tuning slot inventory and availability to how each brand actually books
- Since March 2026, own the clinical-facing enterprise mobile app used in offices by staff and visiting patients, plus Aspen Tx Navigator, Aspen Forms, Aspen Scan and other apps for support office operations; upgraded Flutter from 3.24.3 to 3.47.5, did a major upgrade of the barcode scanner library so the apps can be debugged on devices running the latest iOS, and extended them with Rilla to record in-office consultations and optimize the consultation flow
- Establish organizational standards for application performance monitoring using Sentry, Grafana and adopting OpenTelemetry for metrics, logging and tracing
Spearheaded complete rebuild of Commercial Web platform and established Digital Commerce Platform foundation.
- Architected and delivered foundation of new Digital Commerce Platform (DCP) with multitenant, scalable architecture
- Led migration strategy from Gatsby to Next.js, launching TAG's first multi-tenant application (WellNow)
- Elevated Core Web Vitals performance across key brands, achieving "green metrics" for ClearChoice
- Drove brand onboarding for ClearChoice, Chapter, LoVet, and Aspen Dental replatforming initiatives
- Scaled engineering team from <5 to 20+ engineers while establishing consistent processes and knowledge sharing
Peapod Digital Labs
Chicago, IL · E-CommerceLed technical initiatives for e-commerce platform serving millions of customers.
- Architected GraphQL as middleware for grocery e-commerce platform
- Implemented web accessibility standards across applications
- Mentored senior and mid-level engineers
- Drove technical excellence and code quality improvements
Built and maintained e-commerce platform features for online grocery delivery.
- Developed customer-facing features for web and mobile platforms
- Optimized application performance and database queries
- Collaborated with product teams on feature development
Peapod
Chicago, IL · E-CommerceDeveloped features for digital commerce platform and maintained legacy systems.
- Built responsive UI components for e-commerce platform
- Integrated third-party APIs and 1st party services with front end applications
- Participated in agile development processes
- Improved code quality through testing and reviews
EXACT Sports
Chicago, IL · Sports TechBuilt camp registration and athletic recruiting platforms connecting athletes, coaches, and camps.
- Developed full-stack features for camp registration system
- Built athletic recruiting platform for college coaches
- Implemented payment processing and user management systems
- Created responsive web applications serving thousands of users
Featured Projects
GroceryTrack — AI Grocery Receipt Scanner
Designed, built, and shipped solo an AI receipt scanner on the web (live in one day, March 2026), the App Store (April) and Google Play (October). By October 10 it had 270 users, 144 of whom had scanned 1,245 receipts with 12,376 items, and it has an MCP server so AI assistants can read your grocery data. In October I rewrote the iOS app natively in SwiftUI in about a day with a coding agent: less than half the size, 3x faster CI builds, and 4 dependencies instead of 43. v2 has been on the App Store since November 2.
Tinycap — Screen Recorder for macOS
A native menu-bar app in Swift that records a window, screen, area or a connected iPhone or iPad to small MP4, WebM or GIF files, with system audio and microphone, and takes screenshots with a markup editor whose pixelation can't be undone. Includes its own GIF encoder built for screen recordings. 6.8 MB, signed and notarized, open source (MIT); v0.4 two days after the first commit, now at v0.7.3.
bogyman — Supervising Coding Agents
A Rust CLI that shows which Claude Code and Codex sessions are waiting on you, on what, and for how long. Vendor hooks write to a local SQLite store in under 10 ms and never block an agent; every command returns a stable JSON envelope so scripts or another agent can read it. First commit to v0.3 in four days, about 8,000 lines, open source (MIT).