Rick Laymance
Vice President Of Engineering at MedSuite
Knoxville, Tennessee, United States
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Top SchoolRick Laymance is a seasoned technology executive and VP of Engineering with 25+ years of hands-on experience building scalable SaaS and EMR platforms and currently leading R&D for MedSuite's healthcare portfolio. He has a strong track record of scaling engineering organizations—managing teams of 50+ developers, offshoring initiatives, and driving cost and reliability improvements across cloud migrations (Azure to AWS) and auto-scaling architectures. A pragmatic architect and former founder (Laymance Technologies), he has built high-traffic e-commerce systems and multiple proprietary SaaS products including an EMR used by specialty practices. Rick blends operational IT expertise (network migrations, virtualization, security) with product-focused delivery, regularly presenting technical strategy to executive leadership. Based in Knoxville, TN, he pairs a developer’s craft with executive-level planning and an eye for reducing run-time costs while improving product stability.
9 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Organizational Management, Organizational Management at Tusculum UniversityBachelor of Science (BS), Information Technology, Bachelor of Science (BS), Information Technology at Western Governors University
Github Skills (4)
remote-host10
scp5
sftp5
ftp5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
laymance/nginx-rtmp-module
Oct 2023 - Apr 2025
NGINX-based Media Streaming Server
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 year 5 months
laymance/masking-email-generator-extension
Apr 2025 - Apr 2025
Browser extension for generating random masking emails; for use with a catch-all email address setup on your own domain.
Contributions:1 PR, 23 pushes, 3 branches in 10 days
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