Bobby Reed · Enterprise & Institutional Software
I build and maintain the software institutions run on -- and handle the data they are accountable for. A decade of full-lifecycle development for universities, public agencies' partners, and businesses, with a compliance record spanning SOX/PCI, HIPAA, FERPA, and federal grant data stewardship. Requirements gathered by listening. Code shipped with tests. Systems handed off with documentation.
Applications shipped & maintained
Compliance regimes worked under
Requirements to deployment
Recovered from a corrupted production database
Enterprise software is a promise: the system will work tomorrow, the data will be where it should be, and the next developer will understand what you did. I learned that promise in a SOX/PCI insurance environment, kept it through HIPAA-governed research systems and FERPA-covered university work, and teach it now to graduate software engineering students. The flashy projects are on my other pages. This page is about the discipline.
A decade of sitting with non-technical users -- faculty, librarians, clerks, clients -- and translating what they need into what gets built. The spec is a conversation, not a guess.
SOX/PCI enterprise IT, HIPAA on NIH-funded research, FERPA as a department head, federal grant data stewardship. Regulated data is a discipline, not a checkbox.
Built the unit test infrastructure for a commercial client's production platform so future changes verify against the API contract instead of crossing fingers.
Full lifecycle on commercial off-the-shelf systems: requirements, RFP and vendor selection, configuration, testing, rollout, and training -- for a 19-branch library system.
Knowledge-base author since 2008. Systems I build are handed off with docs strong enough that student workers have become their maintainers.
Graduate Database Design (SQL), Server Web Development (ASP.NET), and Software Engineering (SDLC, OOP, testing) -- taught every semester, not remembered from years ago.
Production systems, recoveries, and modernizations -- the kind of work that rarely gets a launch party and always matters.
A cyberattack corrupted the student newspaper's production WordPress/MySQL database. I recovered 1.4 GB and 10,000+ pages with custom Python pipelines, rebuilt the archive as a static site, stood up a replacement CMS on Azure, and documented honestly what could and could not be saved.
Led framework upgrades across the primary web platform of a construction-badging technology company and built the unit test suite around its API-connected components -- modernizing production software a business depends on, without breaking the business.
The full commercial-off-the-shelf lifecycle for the Metropolitan Library System: requirements analysis, RFP authoring, competitive bidding, vendor selection, configuration, testing, rollout, and the SCORM-compliant training content to fill it.
Five years building and maintaining applications for university researchers -- including NIH-funded projects governed by HIPAA and departmental systems under FERPA -- with authentication, user roles, and audit-ready data handling designed in, not bolted on.
Client work through DEV Limited: web applications with applied AI -- production chatbots and custom integrations, scoped and contracted, shipped and maintained.
Database Design, Server Web Development (ASP.NET), Software Engineering, and Cloud Development -- each taught from a live course site I build and maintain. The curriculum is the proof of currency.
Used in production, taught at the graduate level, or both.
If you need a developer who treats your users as the point of the work, your data as a trust, and your documentation as part of the product -- I would welcome the conversation.