Professional profile
Healthcare economics · Public policy · Applied AI
Carlsbad, California · shane@simulacra.ink
February 2026 — Present · Full-time
Develops and operates creative applications using language models, retrieval and persistent narrative memory. Application work includes React, Node, PostgreSQL, authentication, payments and model integrations.
October 2022 — February 2026 · Full-time
Strategic Insights: healthcare market sizing, payment-integrity product research, payer analytics and Medicaid coverage scenarios. Built product-strategy models, executive materials and an Azure-based product-sizing assistant for Microsoft Teams.
February 2021 — July 2022 · Full-time
Legislative Fiscal Office: established independent Medicaid cost and caseload conferences, produced fiscal notes and communicated the budget implications of healthcare policy.
July 2017 — June 2020 · Full-time
Department of Administration: modeled health-benefit changes, investigated retiree drug-subsidy calculations and supported related vendor procurement.
B.A., Economics and Theatre · Whittier College · 2016
Graduate studies, Health Economics · Johns Hopkins University · 2016–2017; coursework, no completed graduate degree.
Healthcare and Medicaid economics; commercial market sizing; policy and fiscal analysis; payer strategy; executive research communication; applied AI and retrieval; application development.