Paul Snider, CTO

Engineering Executive & Technology Strategist

Engineering executive focused on platform strategy, AI enablement, and high-impact technology integration.

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Paul Snider

About Me

As Chief Technology Officer at Provation, I am responsible for technology strategy and execution across the company's platforms and products. I bring two decades of healthcare technology leadership, with deep experience building and scaling enterprise clinical systems in highly regulated environments.

Prior to joining Provation, I held executive roles at Cerner, where I contributed to the growth and scalability of one of the largest electronic health record platforms in the world and supported multi-billion-dollar healthcare technology initiatives focused on performance, reliability, and data platforms at global scale. I later served as Vice President of Engineering at Netsmart, leading data, interoperability, medication management, and AI platforms supporting behavioral health and post-acute care, with systems processing billions of transactions each month.

I have shared my perspective on engineering leadership and applied AI at industry and partner events, including AWS re:Invent, Gartner IAM Summit, DevOpsDays, and InfoQ panels.

My passion for continuous learning, coaching, and a user-focused approach to product development drives me to create technology that truly makes healthcare more accessible, effective, and efficient for everyone.

Location: Overland Park, Kansas
Current Role: Chief Technology Officer, Provation
Experience:
  • AI-driven engineering transformation expert
  • 20+ years in healthcare IT
  • Led M&A due diligence and integration
  • 300+ engineers across global teams
  • Public speaker & industry panelist

Skills & Expertise

Leadership

Executive Leadership
Team Management
Strategic Planning
Agile Methodologies
Mentoring
Global Team Leadership

Technical

Cloud Architecture
AWS
Microservices
DevOps
CI/CD
Data Platforms
Containerization
IAM/CIAM
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Natural Language Processing (NLP)
Predictive Analytics
Generative AI

Healthcare

EHR Systems
Interoperability
HIPAA Compliance
HITRUST
Healthcare IT
Pharmacy Systems
Clinical Workflows
Revenue Cycle Management (RCM)
Medical Billing & Coding
Claims Processing & Adjudication
Payer Systems & Integration
Value-Based Care Models

Business

Product Development
Revenue Growth
Strategic M&A
FinOps
Vendor Management
Stakeholder Collaboration

Public Speaking

Paul Snider is a seasoned engineering leader and frequent speaker on topics at the intersection of software development, AI, and product engineering. He has addressed audiences of nearly 1,000 people on more than five occasions and brings a pragmatic, engaging voice to complex topics like AI in the SDLC, engineering culture, and technical due diligence.

Key Topics:

  • AI & the Software Development Lifecycle
  • Product Engineering & Innovation
  • Building Engineering Culture
  • Leading High-Performance Teams
  • Technical Diligence in M&A

Professional Experience

December 2025 - Present

Current

Chief Technology Officer

Provation

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Key Responsibilities:
  • Executive Technology Leadership: Provide executive leadership for technology strategy and delivery across Provation's clinical documentation and platform ecosystem, aligning engineering execution with product strategy, customer needs, and business growth.
  • Modernization, AI & Delivery Excellence: Advance platform modernization and apply AI and automation across software delivery to improve quality, speed, and operational efficiency while maintaining high standards for reliability and compliance.

November 2021 - December 2025

4 years

Vice President of Engineering

Netsmart

Overland Park, Kansas, United States

Key Responsibilities:
  • Data Platform: Lead Netsmart's cloud-native data platform leveraging AWS Aurora, Redshift, S3, and Glue for scalable storage, ingestion, and processing across 18 million patient lives. Established automated pipelines (Kinesis, Step Functions, Lambda) that unify clinical and financial data, enabling AI-driven analytics without compromising performance or security.
  • High-Scale Interoperability: Oversee a Distributed Event Platform that processes 2 billion monthly internal transactions via an event-driven architecture. It connects nearly 50,000 organizations and 100's of HIEs processing millions monthly external transactions, ensuring real-time data exchange and seamless cross-system workflows.
  • Business & Organizational Leadership: Manage a global engineering organization (120+), championing agile delivery in support of revenue growth and strategic M&A. Oversee large annual product revenue with FinOps best practices, maintaining an efficiency ratio (E/R). Collaborate with executive stakeholders to shape product roadmaps, expand market opportunities, and drive overall business success.
  • Cloud-Native Architecture & DevOps: Architect cloud strategies leveraging microservices, containerization (Docker, AWS Fargate, EKS), and CI/CD automation (Jenkins, CodePipeline). Elevate agility, scalability, and security via distributed caching (Redis), advanced observability (CloudWatch, Splunk), and real-time monitoring.
  • Identity & Access Management (IAM/CIAM): Drive enterprise-wide authentication and authorization standards (OpenID Connect, OAuth 2.0, Keycloak) integrated with Netsmart's IAM/CIAM framework. Uphold HITRUST, HIPAA, and Gov Cloud regulations for e-prescribing, data-sharing, and other regulated workflows.
  • Medication Management: Direct the flagship e-prescribing and medication management platform serving thousands of providers. Led a strategic migration to AWS, cutting response times by 50%, reducing operational costs, and bolstering reliability, patient safety, and user satisfaction.

April 2019 - November 2021

2 years 8 months

Senior Director, Platform Engineering

Cerner Corporation

Overland Park, Kansas Area

Key Responsibilities:
  • Executive responsibility for an engineering organization of 200+ associates developing EHR services across the United States, Romania, and Bangalore, India.
  • Executive owner of the EHR scalability program across 300+ engineers focused on managing software, systems, and product scalability of the largest global health system on earth.
  • Executive owner of the EHR data governance program.
  • Managed vendor relationships with Oracle and MongoDB.

April 2018 - April 2019

1 year 1 month

Director, Care Insight & Delivery Development

Cerner Corporation

Kansas City, Missouri Area

Key Responsibilities:
  • Executive responsibility for an organization of 300+ associates developing full-stack clinical products across the United States, London, and Bangalore, India.
  • Executive sponsor and core council member of the corporate engineering leadership program.
  • Facilitated corporate leadership program.
  • Speaker at both internal and external conferences on topics of Engineering Leadership, Product Development, Agile, and DevOps.

August 2013 - April 2019

5 years 9 months

Senior Software Engineering Manager

Cerner Corporation

Kansas City, Missouri, United States

Key Responsibilities:
  • Managed a software engineering business unit that included 30+ technical and clinical associates across 6 agile teams focusing on full-stack software development.
  • Developed software products focused on Pharmacy, Infection Control, Rehabilitation, and Nursing to meet specifications outlined by regulatory agencies (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, United States Department of Defense, UK National Health Service, and European Health CE Mark).
  • Created Cerner's development process governance gateway in collaboration with the Project Management Office, which was implemented across all engineering and Agile Business Units.

September 2003 - August 2005

2 years

Application Web Developer

McMurtrey/Whitaker & Associates, Inc.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Developed dynamic e-commerce business websites using ASP.NET, ASP, VB6, SQL, PHP, HTML, JavaScript.

Education

Master of Business Administration (MBA)

Webster University

2009 - 2011

Bachelor of Science, Computer Information Systems

Missouri State University

2001 - 2005

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Get In Touch

Feel free to reach out to discuss healthcare technology, engineering leadership, or potential opportunities.

Kansas City, Missouri, United States
paul@paulsnider.net
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