I'm Abraham Tio, Principal Software Engineer at Tacteon Ltd. 25+ years building and leading software teams — from healthcare platforms to logistics engines to AI MVPs. Available now for contract engineering, small-business automation (including Odoo), and hands-on IT consulting in Vernon & Kamloops.
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Pick the engagement that fits — a short paid audit, an ongoing contract, an automation project, or hands-on local support.
Full-stack, backend, or cloud work on a contract or project basis — direct, or through Upwork, Toptal, or Contra. Quick to onboard, comfortable working async across time zones.
A fixed-price audit of your codebase or architecture — what's fragile, what's overbuilt, what will bite you at scale. Delivered as a clear, prioritized written report, no jargon.
On-the-ground help for local businesses: systems that don't talk to each other, aging software that needs a plan, or a second opinion before a big purchase. In person or remote.
Quotes re-typed into invoices. Inventory that lives in one person's spreadsheet. Three systems that don't talk to each other. I map the workflow you actually run, then automate the step that's costing you the most hours — not the whole company at once.
A note on tooling: I recommend the tool that fits your business, not the one I resell — I'm not a reseller of anything. In practice Odoo is where I go deepest, and I'm happy to pick up an Odoo implementation that's stalled, over budget, or was left half-finished by someone else.
I trained as a physician — a Doctorate of Medicine from the University of Calgary and a residency year in Radiation Oncology — before moving into software full-time in 1998. That background shows up in how I work: diagnose before you treat. I'd rather spend an hour understanding what's actually broken than a week guessing.
Since then I've been a developer, team lead, director and instructor across healthcare technology, logistics, and AI startups — including early contributions to HAPI FHIR, a widely-used open-source library for HL7 healthcare data exchange. I also hold a BC Teaching Certificate, which comes in handy when a code review needs to actually be understood, not just filed away.
I run Tacteon Ltd as my own consultancy, and take on select outside contract, audit, and local consulting work alongside it.
A sample of engagements across the last decade — the full history goes back to 1998.
Architected and shipped an MVP for AI-guided clinical recommendations, from design through release, managing an agile team of engineers and design. Built on AWS (Elastic Beanstalk, RDS, Amplify, SageMaker) with Python, TypeScript, SvelteKit, Django and FastAPI.
Led warehouse-inbound functions for a North American warehouse management system. Designed an intelligent putaway engine that cut warehouse labor costs by 22%, and built tooling to migrate, synchronize and repair data across systems mid-migration.
Built core components of "Freedom," an integration portal enabling secure, bidirectional prescription transmission between doctors' offices and Shoppers Drug Mart pharmacies — the EMR component, messaging server, and pharmacist-facing front end.
Designed and built full practice-management systems: scheduling, automated payroll with commission logic, granular clinical documentation, alerts & messaging, and multidimensional reporting — plus newer MVPs spanning ed-tech microscheduling and IoT-driven vertical agriculture.
Built live HL7 lab-result delivery systems for point-of-care use by nursing staff, pharmacists and specialists, and HL7 interfaces linking hospital labs, radiology, dentistry and health records — while managing a team of DBAs, report writers and support staff.
Tell me a bit about what you need — a contract engineer, a codebase audit, an automation project, or local IT help — and I'll reply within a business day.