MedCheck
MedCheck Is a medication adherence utility that runs primarily through the Amazon Echo, Echo Dot, and other Alexa enabled IOT Devices.
I'm Brian Carlson.
Cofounder & Technical Lead
I build software across healthcare, data science, AI, and engineering. I'm now building Truer Health as Cofounder and Technical Lead.
I've worked on everything from data pipelines and financial tools to 3D point clouds, and I love applying technology to new problems.
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Projects
A few things I’ve built.
RESearch
RESearch (Restriction Enzyme Search) uses existing databases of genes and restriction enzymes to find the optimal way to encode arbitrary information into DNA.
FRET Visualizer
An interactive tool for visualizing the physics of Förster Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET).
Work Experience
A selection of the places I’ve worked.
Jan 2026 – Present
Cofounder and Technical Lead
Truer Health
Building Truer Health.
Jun 2019 – Jun 2023
President & Lead Architect
TacoAI
Designed and built stock and option trading platform with a built in voice-assistant and AI for back-office automation.
Aug 2019 – Oct 2021
Co-founder
Lucra Trading
Developed an automated cryptocurrency trading platform that's been live trading since August 2020 with over 250% returns.
Aug 2020 – Oct 2021
Data Engineer
HealthVerity
Automated big data pipelines for healthcare data using Spark
Feb 2019 – Jun 2020
Data Engineer
Fishback Management and Research
Created a backtesting framework to improve internal stock option ranking metrics. Wrote AI to improve stock options trading strategies.
Feb 2019 – Oct 2019
Data Scientist
Institute of Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Policy
Wrote machine learning models for detecting anomalies in healthcare charge records
Aug 2015 – May 2019
Student
University of Kentucky
Graduated with degrees in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and a minor in Math. Led UK's ACM chapter and organized workshops and hackathons.
Jun 2018 – Aug 2018
Software Engineer
84.51°
Worked on the orchestration layer of a tool for enabling a cloud-based data science pipeline.
Jan 2018 – May 2018
Head of Crypto Asset Management
TWW Family Holdings L.L.L.P.
Built a high-availability, highly parallel, intelligent cryptocurrency bot trading platform from the ground up. Involved stress testing, parallel programming, cloud computing, machine learning, and artificial intelligence.
Sep 2017 – Dec 2017
Lab Assistant
UKY Engineering Innovation Center
Maintained 3D printers, laser cutters, and other tools in the Makerspace. Assisted in the creation of student and professor projects, helping bring ideas from the drawing board into real life.
Jun 2017 – Aug 2017
Security Engineer II
United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit IT
Developed security policies and SSP for the IT Security Scorecard for the Sixth Circuit and lower courts. Wrote document generation software for acceleration of security document completion.
Jan 2017 – May 2017
Software Engineer
Belcan Engineering
Designed automation software for error reporting. Built software to detect anomalous implementation and design requirements to ensure designs met government and industry standards.
Sep 2016 – Dec 2016
Research Assistant
University of Kentucky Psychology Department
Provided insight for guiding human interaction in creativity studies. Developed a chatbot for aiding research studies using chat data gathered from Discord servers. Created virtual chat agents inside Second Life game for studies.
May 2016 – Aug 2016
Software Engineering Intern
Carlson Software (again)
Developed CAD-like polyline capabilities, integrated old codebases
Feb 2016 – May 2016
Programming Paraprofessional
UKY Center for Drug and Alcohol Research
Worked with PHP/MySQL for several large studies on the effectiveness of substance abuse treatment programs. Worked with the Yii and LimeSurvey frameworks alongside SourceTree for version control.
Nov 2013 – Sep 2015
Student Programmer
Western Kentucky University Physics Department
Created Monte Carlo simulations for research on Förster Resonance Energy Transfer. Created a visualization tool for understanding the equations surrounding FRET.
May 2015 – Aug 2015
Software Engineering Intern
Carlson Software
Developed faster algorithms for 3D point clouds and 3D model imports
Aug 2013 – May 2015
Student
Gatton Academy
Attended a residential STEM highschool, learning with some of the brightest minds from Kentucky
Mar 2014 – May 2014
Student Programmer
Western Kentucky University Psychology Department
Built interactive visualizations for word usage differences by gender