My Founder Story: From Startup Engineer to Building Resolve Solutions

As a seasoned software engineer, I've had a successful career spanning multiple industries, with a big part of my early work being in startups. I'd love to share my unique professional background and how it led to my own founder story.

I've always had a passion for creating products, and over the years I built a few ideas of my own. Some required too much capital, and others demanded more time and risk than I could realistically take on while balancing family life and career. Eventually, I landed at a major healthcare insurance company, where I grew into a stable role across solution architecture, app development, and, more recently, cloud platform integration with AWS at scale.

Going All-In on AI

With the rise of LLMs and AI, I went all-in on vibe-coding and moved from prototyping with VS Code, the Claude family (Sonnet, Opus 4.6, 4.7), Flutter, and AWS serverless into a full consumer SaaS vision. I built Resolve Reinvent in just six months and launched it to both app stores and the web. It's a full-featured wellness app that integrates AI across mood tracking, journaling, community spaces, recovery habits, breathing, and sleep. It's definitely a crowded space, but I'm trying to bring a distinct twist to it by using AI to create long-term value for people working through mental health and wellness challenges, not just a quick hit.

My Favorite Stack

My favorite stack is Flutter/Dart for cross-platform mobile and web, Firebase Auth with Google and Apple sign-in, JWT-based flows, and AWS Lambda (Python) plus DynamoDB on the backend. I recently bolted on RevenueCat for subscriptions, onboarding, and a paywall. I primarily use VS Code and GitHub Actions across three or four repos, and I lean heavily on the Claude family — Sonnet for fast iteration, Opus 4.6 and now 4.7 — running multiple parallel sessions in each repo. I've found this to be a really strong development model, and I'm sure it will keep evolving as we move further toward more automated agentic AI.

Distribution Is the Real Challenge

Technically, I feel really confident about what I've built, and I feel ready to reuse and scale this model. But now, as we all know, distribution is the real challenge. So I've been diving into marketing, product strategy, and even building out a corporate site. I created a Facebook page, Instagram, X, and Reddit presence, hired two UGC creators, ran some Facebook ads, and made about ten reels myself using CapCut and Gemini.

Taking the Leap

I really took the leap. I accepted an early retirement package in March and gave myself about a year of runway to see if I can gain traction across one or more apps. In parallel, I also structured an LLC, Resolve Solutions, LLC, where I can showcase both my product work and my enterprise architecture and leadership background, while creating a foundation to scale this vision and future products.