Ben LeBlond
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Can you build a telehealth platform that doesn't require patients to install anything?'
That was the Pigeon Healthcare challenge.
The solution: SMS/MMS as the patient interface, Flutter as the provider platform, LLMs as the assistant. Patients text naturally. AI summarizes...
Junín (Argentina). Gurgaon (India). Hollywood. ✈️
As Lead Backend Engineer at Grindr, I built teams across three continents. The codebase was challenging. The reviews were tough. The app still struggles with issues we fought daily.
But the engineers I hired in Junín, the late...
Healthcare needs to be accessible everywhere. That meant our code had to be too.
The challenge with DocSquad: Build a telehealth platform that works identically on your iPhone, Android device, mobile browser, and desktop — without maintaining four separate codebases.
I led the web...
Can you really build a complete platform with just Flutter + Dart?
Spoiler: Yes.
Working with a Figma designer and integrating with legacy AS/400 systems, I built both the frontend (FlutterFlow) and backend (pure Dart) — bridging modern and legacy infrastructure in one cohesive ecosystem.
