Summary
David Edwards is a seasoned technology leader and CTO known for turning complex healthcare and enterprise-scale platforms into reliable, scalable solutions. He currently serves as Chief Technology Officer at Relatient and as a board member at Illuminate, weaving product strategy with deep technical stewardship in healthcare and hospital workflows. Over a lengthy tenure at Cerner and later leadership at Vendavo, he built and led web-scale engineering teams and steered critical migrations from legacy architectures to cloud-native, with a track record including pioneering a cloud-based EHR search product and delivering identity, authentication, auditing, administration, and petabyte-scale data processing platforms. An Engineering Fellow and longtime advocate of principled, results-oriented leadership, he balances rigorous technical execution with team development and pragmatic delivery. Based in Kansas City and holding a BS in Computer Science and Mathematics, he remains active in advising healthcare startups and exploring innovative tech and industry trends.
13 years of coding experience