Jason W. Stoudt

Head of AI-Native Engineering

Download PDF

Profile

Engineering leader with 20+ years across defense, health tech, and academic publishing, including directing five product teams and 20+ engineers. Now leads AI-native transformation at Signify Health (CVS Health): an AI SDLC program across 11+ engineering teams that prompted CVS CEO David Joyner to ask, “How do we get this to propagate throughout CVS?” Still ships: built the multi-agent governance, spec, and knowledge platforms the program runs on.

Core Expertise

Leadership & practice
  • Engineering Leadership
  • AI SDLC
  • AI Governance & Telemetry
  • Multi-Agent Systems
  • Evidence-First / Spec-First Dev
  • Change Management
Stack
  • Claude Code · Agent SDK · MCP
  • LiteLLM · Azure APIM · Okta
  • TypeScript · React
  • .NET · C#
  • Go
  • PostgreSQL
  • Kafka
  • FHIR R4
  • GitHub Actions
  • Kubernetes · ArgoCD · Kargo
  • SonarQube · Playwright

Experience

Head of AI-Native Engineering

Feb 2024 – Present

Signify Health (CVS Health)

Stepped off the management track in Aug 2025 (Lead Director, Engineering → VP-direct IC) to lead the AI SDLC transformation full time.

Program & org leadership

  • At CVS Leadership Live, CEO David Joyner asked, “How do we get this to propagate throughout CVS?” Recognized at the HCD Townhall by CTO Amaresh Siva and named AI SDLC co-architect by VP of Engineering Shubha Chaudhuri, the only IC reporting directly to a VP.
  • Owns the company-wide AI SDLC program (SEALS-198) across 11+ teams, onboarding 11 teams in 2 days vs. the prior 1–3 months. Drives the agenda of the weekly executive SteerCo and a cross-org forum that peaked at 100+ attendees across the US and Ireland; facilitated the two-day Dallas workshop for 50+ engineers and executives and the Galway immersion, where VP Casey Lucas called him “indispensable.” In Oct 2026, named to the six-person AI SDLC core steering group and charged with defining the org’s SDLC tooling strategy.
  • Designed the working framework for the two-day NYC AI Engineering Onsite (Oct 2026, ~40 VPs, directors, and principals). His friction-to-SDLC-phase map became the breakout structure and his “two-way door / one-way door” model was adopted for deciding when agents may act in production without a human. Result: six SDLC phases, each with an executive sponsor, and a readout requested as input to 2027 annual planning.
  • Primary author of the AI SDLC Autonomy Framework (L0–L5 autonomy levels × Tier 1–4 application risk, with HIPAA/HITRUST prerequisites), the org’s governance standard. Conceived and co-built AI Ledger, opt-in AI-usage telemetry that logs no prompts, approved by the SteerCo for phased rollout, and the Flywheel dashboard for the org’s nine-pillar engineering initiative.

Platforms built

  • Founded jAIson Bourne / Hallucination Ward, an autonomous multi-agent governance system: 400+ agent sessions, 80+ formal proposals with veto windows and quorum rules, a human-gate matrix for agent autonomy, and 22+ CHAOS tabletop exercises.
  • Created Evidence-First Development (AnchorKit), replacing 12–20 drift-prone markdown artifacts per feature with 1–3 executable files, now the engineering standard. Designed the AI-native framework propagated to 100+ repositories, cutting LLM context overhead 60%, and launched the internal Claude Code plugin marketplace (16+ plugins) whose PR plugin requires a code review before any PR opens.
  • Built Relic, an AI assistant on the Claude Agent SDK where non-developers file GitHub Issues that agents turn into Draft PRs, with SSO, Slack, Figma, Atlassian, and Google Workspace connectors and a wiki that compounds every answer. Built Library-Agent, an org knowledge API indexing 1,372 repositories.
  • Authored 43 clinical system specifications in one day (FHIR R4, Kafka/NServiceBus, .NET 10, React 19, PostgreSQL); led parallel 7-, 15-, and 30-agent reviews surfacing 64 architecture issues and 5 P0 security findings; shipped Phase 1 of the AI-assisted HEDIS clinical audit and phi-finder, nightly PHI scanning across org repositories.

Director of Engineering

May 2022 – Jan 2024

Osmosis from Elsevier

  • Accountable for five software development teams, each with an Engineering Lead, 2–4 developers, and a Quality Engineer.
  • Led the front-end migration to React and added Spanish i18n, opening a new market segment.
  • Delivered full CI/CD in GitHub Actions with end-to-end smoke and regression suites.

Manager, Software Engineering

Feb 2021 – May 2022

Elsevier

  • Managed back-end component teams for the ClinicalKey platform: 9 direct reports, 14 total headcount.
  • Migrated 15 back-end Java repositories from Maven to Gradle, sharply cutting local and CI build times.
  • Rolled out SonarQube static analysis across all ClinicalKey repositories.

Lead Software Engineer

Oct 2018 – Jan 2021

Elsevier

Lead engineer on Elsa, an end-to-end content creation platform for authors, contributors, and Elsevier staff. Directed four teams of 20+ developers across on-shore and off-shore.

  • Designed and executed the migration from Backbone.js to React, managing the front-end monorepo with Lerna.
  • Consolidated ~100 back-end Java repositories into a single Gradle monorepo, significantly cutting build times.

Technical Lead & Software Architect

Sept 2003 – Oct 2018

L3 Technologies, Communications Systems East

15 years as technical lead or architect on every defense communications program worked; consistently ranked among the top engineers.

Independent Work

Founder

2024 – Present

Stoudt Labs LLC

  • Builds and runs consumer products from one Nx monorepo of 28 Next.js apps: salarycap.football (NFL salary-cap fantasy, PWA + iOS), capsl.life (voice-first personal assistant), and putmein.co (youth sports team management).
  • Runs it AI-first: agents ship every change through pull requests, gated by CI that verifies signed local-validation receipts and patch coverage.

Education

The Pennsylvania State University

B.S. Computer Science, Minor in Mathematics