Talent Acquisition Data Analytics

Richard (Rick) Minerich Cranford, NJ *******.********@*****.*** 860-***-****

https://www.linkedin.com/in/richardminerich/

Seasoned technology executive with 15+ years building and scaling mission-critical SaaS platforms from zero to global scale, scaling organizations from small teams to 80+ across six countries and orchestrating a successful startup exit. Hands-on architect and automation champion who’s driven cloud-native transformations (AWS/Azure), halved infrastructure budgets, instituted CI/CD taking deployments from quarterly to weekly, reduced code defect rates by 50%+, reduced data defects by 90%+ and piloted solutions that unlocked tens of millions of dollars ARR. Collaborative leader known for recruiting and mentoring world-class teams, aligning roadmaps to business goals, and delivering resilient, data-driven platforms that tackle complex unstructured-data challenges. Transformational

Leadership

Architectural & DevOps

Excellence

Data, ML & Innovation

Scaling, Org Design,

Change Management

Cloud-Native Architecture

(GCP / AWS / Azure)

Unstructured-Data Platforms,

Data Lakes

Talent Acquisition,

Development & Retention

Microservices & Event-

Driven Pipelines

Big Data Analytics (2B+

rows/day)

Budget & Cost Governance

(-50% cloud spend)

Infrastructure as Code,

MLOps & GitOps

GenAI & ML Productization

(Llama, Gemini, MedLM)

Cross-functional road-

mapping, capacity planning

and partnerships

CI/CD & Release

Automation

(quarterly weekly cadence)

Data Privacy, Compliance &

Model Validation (SOC2,

HIPAA, GDPR)

Independent Consultant Lux Agentica March 2025 – Present GenAI and Fractional CTO Consulting, Product Architecture, Infrastructure and DevOps.

• Designed and built a GenAI Insights Platform, digesting thousands of expert conversations into insights for business intelligence in the Biotech domain. VP of Engineering Well.co Sept 2022 – Nov 2024 Deputy to the CTO, accountable for platform strategy, delivery, and operations across a global engineering organization with a 2B+ event data lake, 40-service polyglot backend, and AI-driven mobile experience in the Digital Health / HRTech space (GCP + AWS).

• Org Scale & Talent - Headcount 40 80 in six countries; introduced career ladders, performance reviews, and mentored high-potential ICs into leadership posts.

• Architecture & Productivity - Owned roadmap and risk register. Tech-debt, process and tooling revamp more than doubled team velocity.

• Product Impact - Shipped gamification that raised 90-day retention 30% and unlocked $4M ARR. Pivoted 20% of eng org for 6mo to launch a net-new product.

• GenAI & Clinical Enablement – Piloted Llama 2, Gemini, MedLM on Vertex AI - cut clinical-content creation time 60% and call-center comments review time 50%.

• Reliability & DevOps – Standardized deployments and SLAs (2 7 envs, 3 12 customers, 100k 500k users), eliminated chronic outages, data gaps, false alerts, and customer escalations.

• Cloud & Governance – Co-managed multi-million-dollar cloud budget with CFO; aligned MSAs, SOC2, data-privacy and model-validation controls. Safe Banking Systems CTO Accuity / RELX Jan 2019 - Nov 2021 Department head and integration lead after acquisition. Screening and remediation of account and payments alerts, 1B+ daily. RegTech/FinTech. (AWS + Azure + On-Prem).

• Integration Program - Co-ran $10M product-tech integration project; merged roadmaps, integrated security and compliance, zero customer downtime.

• Org Expansion - 25 50 staff plus contractors to meet projected integration load.

• AI/IP Leverage - Enhanced ERF; new ML models reduced analyst review time in legacy Accuity products by 90%. Risk model enabled cross-sell data offering.

• Legacy Modernization - Migrated customers off EOL stack and iterated on cost reduction, reducing infra cost 60% and Eng overhead 25%.

• Global Delivery - Re-aligned teams for 24 7 support and global releases.

• Strategic Partnerships - Embedded ERF and risk-ranking tech as addons into partner products, opening new channels. Delivered new joint EDD product. Chief Technology OSicer Safe Banking Systems Nov 2010 - Jan 2019 Head of R&D turned CTO after inventing trajectory changing IP, Accountable for all aspects of the engineering organization. End-to-end processing and remediation of customer records and payments, 500M+ records daily. (AWS + On Prem).

• Org Growth & Process - 5 25 staff; rolled out SOC2-ready SDLC, roadmap, capacity planning, and KPI dashboards.

• SaaS Pivot - Rescued a 3-year-stalled project and launched the hosted “Visual Intelligence Platform” in 6mo, shifting SBS to SaaS subscription revenue.

• Exit Preparation - Owned tech due-diligence and maturity push that enabled RELX purchase; positioned roadmap, risks, and technical IP.

• Enterprise Delivery – Delivered eight high-6 / mid-7-figure ARR heavily customized SaaS deployments and support with Tier-1 banking and investment institutions.

• Model Validation Thought-Leadership - Produced 60-page AI/ML model validation guide adopted by all clients, took customer onboarding time from months to weeks.

• Foundational Achievements (Director of R&D 2010-2017) - Invented SAM, the analytic core of all products. Cut human review ~90%, scaling to 100M+ records daily. Designed a ML-oriented DSL (Barb), reducing feature TTL to hours. Education

• University of Massachusetts Amherst, BS (Computer Science), 2005 – 2007

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