rigforge: 252 tests, greenMIT licence, 60 modules · no network, no credentials
Forward Deployed Engineer in Denver · open to full-time
I take the deployment from the customer's whiteboard to production, and I stay until it runs
Fifteen years shipping into other people's environments: hospital emergency departments, a $6B health system, and now a stack I built and run myself. Everything below is checkable on this page, without leaving it.
try it on a stack:
one click → a day 1 / day 7 / day 30 plan against that stack. or paste your own ↓
Mike Rodgers · Denver, CO
- PMP
- Lean / Six Sigma Black Belt
- U.S. Army Counterintelligence · clearance-eligible
what is actually running
routes in production31 Next.js/React pages · 23 TypeScript API routes
Integration, literallyfour role-tiered nodes · LAN-first, remote failover
chunks under retrieval
61k+ pages on pgvector · 100% embedding coverage
Upstream contributor to the retrieval engine. It is not my project and I won't claim it.
Where the work happensbench first, slides never
MCP serverstwo authored · 48 integrated behind one permission layer
Three of the things on this page run in your browser. Nothing here needs a repository link to check.
the dry run
Tell me your environment. I'll give you a first month.
Plain words are fine: the stack, the constraints, the team you have.
runs offline, in this tab
Day 1 / Day 7 / Day 30
Pick a stack chip above, or describe your environment and run it.
The matcher is deterministic: a token table, no network, it cannot fail or hallucinate. That is deliberate: it is how I ship agents. A model may enrich a plan; it never is the plan.
the receipt behind the dry run
The ingestion gate: switch a check off and watch the poison through
ProofPacket: seal it, change one character, verify
Real SHA-256 via the Web Crypto API. No server, no library.
$ python3 -m pytest -q ........................................................................ [ 28%] ........................................................................ [ 57%] ........................................................................ [ 85%] .................................... [100%] 252 passed $ rigforge verify --require-signature --require-signature was set but no signing key is configured (set RIGFORGE_SIGNING_KEY or configure signing.key_file in rigforge.yaml). # fails closed. no key, no verdict. it will not print PASS to be polite. # and the part most tools leave out: the seal is HMAC-SHA256, which is # symmetric. holding the key lets you verify it. it does not let a third # party verify it independently. That needs an asymmetric signature, # and this does not have one.
the record
3 hr → 15 min
emergency-department wait, five hospital systems, 130,000+ patients
$35M
operating-expense reduction · Emergency Care Innovation of the Year
both seats
bought and integrated it as the health system, then deployed it as the vendor
2025 to now · Rodgers Intelligence Group
Founder & Forward Deployed Engineer
Build and operate the platform above. Consult as an embedded FDE for PE portfolio companies, healthcare organisations and professional-services firms: discovery with their stakeholders, integration against their systems, handover with acceptance criteria and runbooks.
2021-2026 · Oracle (formerly Cerner)
Senior Director, Strategy & Competitive Intelligence
Designed and ran an AI competitive-intelligence system processing 150+ daily signals across a $6B+ healthcare enterprise. Led enterprise AI adoption across telehealth, analytics and product.
2020-2021 · EmOpti
Vice President, Business Development
Deployed a clinical telehealth platform into hospital environments as the vendor. This is the same platform previously bought and integrated from the health-system side. Advocate, HCA, Jefferson Memorial: scoping and integration through go-live.
2016-2020 · Advocate Health
VP Commercial & Strategic Innovation → Director
Owned the EmOpti deployment across five hospital systems from the customer side, into clinical workflow, across fourteen emergency departments. Built an innovation division from zero.
fit
Here is where I am the wrong hire
Believe the rest of the page more because of this part.
strong fit
- Forward Deployed Engineer / FDSE
- Deployment Strategist · Solutions Architect (enterprise AI)
- Customer-embedded delivery at a platform or consultancy
- Regulated industries, healthcare especially
- Zero-to-one, where the problem isn't defined yet
- Real travel, real time on the customer's site
not a fit
- Pure research or ML modelling. I deploy systems, I don't train models
- Backend-only with no customer contact
- Anything where the deployment is someone else's problem
- Roles needing a decade of continuous software-engineering tenure
Send me the job description. I'll tell you honestly if I'm the right one.
Three patent applications in preparation. Nothing is filed yet, and I won't claim a legal status it doesn't have.