AxolDad - Overview

👋 Hi, I'm @AxolDad

CEO & Founder building healthcare tech that empowers the invisible workforce.
Part developer, part EMT, part human in progress.
Personal dev portfolio: ioio.dev


🧠 About Me

  • 🏥 CEO & Founder of Code Pause Inc. — building OutsideINsights, empowering 63 million unpaid home health caregivers with tools to validate their observations
  • 🛰️ Building space communications systems with Pale Blue Systems using QUIC, HTTP/3, and advanced multiplexing techniques
  • 🖥️ Full-stack developer specializing in modern React, Bun, Hono, and PostgreSQL
  • 🔒 Expert in HIPAA-compliant, secure system design and isolated infrastructure
  • 🚑 25-year EMT & Crisis Responder — currently volunteering with 988 crisis lines
  • 🧠 Background in psychology and behavioral health — building tech that bridges clinical care and human compassion
  • 💡 Giving America's largest unpaid workforce the clinical intelligence tools they deserve

💻 Tech Stack

🧩 Core Stack

JavaScript TypeScript React Bun Node.js Hono PostgreSQL Drizzle ORM

🛠️ Also Working With

Python C++ Rust Raspberry Pi ESP32 Docker


⚙️ Current Projects

🏥 OutsideINsights (Active Development)

Empowering 63 million unpaid home health caregivers with clinical intelligence tools:

  • VR-12-aligned continuous monitoring to validate caregiver observations
  • "Better, Same, Worse" survey methodology for tracking patient trajectory
  • Real-time patient outcome monitoring for Medicare Advantage plans
  • TanStack ecosystem for robust data handling and UI
  • Rhapsody Health integration for EMR connectivity

🛰️ Pale Blue Systems (Space Communications)

Building next-generation communications infrastructure for space applications:

  • QUIC & HTTP/3 protocols for low-latency, reliable space-to-ground communications
  • Spatial multiplexing & spectral tensor encoding for high-bandwidth optical transmission
  • DWDM optical systems and CCSDS packetization for efficient data delivery
  • Riccati algebra for advanced signal processing and control systems
  • Developing resilient network architectures for extreme environments

🚑 Crisis Intervention Solutions

Peer-to-peer de-escalation tools based on the Taft Method — 25 years of EMT and crisis counselor experience distilled into training and technology.

🤖 AI Model Fine-Tuning

Exploring fast/slow model architectures for clinical intelligence systems.

🎮 Side Projects

  • ESP32 hardware wearables development
  • IoT monitoring platforms
  • Modern adaptation of Ann Radcliffe's "The Mysteries of Udolpho"

🌱 What I'm Up To

  • 💼 Fundraising for OutsideINsights
  • 📊 Building market intelligence on Medicare Advantage payers (UnitedHealth, Humana, CVS Health)
  • 🎯 Positioning healthcare's $600B unpaid caregiver workforce as the solution to Medicare's monitoring crisis
  • 🛰️ Developing space communications technology with Pale Blue Systems — advanced multiplexing and optical transmission systems
  • 🔧 Refining technical demos and investor-grade research

🧰 When I'm Not Coding

You'll find me:

  • 📚 Collecting rare books (first editions, classics, children's, signed)
  • 🪙 Coin collecting with a focus on commemoratives
  • 🌿 Aquascaping freshwater tanks
  • 🔥 Learning TIG, MIG, and stick welding
  • 🧠 Volunteering on 988 crisis lines

Sometimes all in the same day.


💬 Let's Connect

Building at the intersection of healthcare, crisis response, space communications, and technology.
Always open to collaboration, investor conversations, or good ideas.

📫 Reach me: GitHub • ioio.dev


"Build with purpose. Stay curious."