Summary
Lateef Jackson is a Director of Engineering and veteran technology leader with over 15 years of hands-on experience building cloud-native systems across healthcare, finance, real estate and security. He blends entrepreneurial instincts with operator experience as an investor and CTO at Troy Medicare, where he led engineering for pharmacy care management and integrations with US government systems using Go, Postgres and GCP. Based in Portland, he has scaled teams and architectures at startups and large companies including New Relic and Coalition, shaping technical strategy, mentorship, and delivery. An active venture partner and charter member in local investor networks, he focuses on backing non-traditionally funded founders in healthcare tech. Lateef’s background spans low-level platform work to executive IT stewardship, reflecting a rare comfort moving from laptops and devops to product-grade cloud infrastructure. He pairs a BS in Computer Science with a pragmatic, security-minded approach to shipping resilient systems for underserved communities.
15 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Spanish