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Gregory Matthew Manrodt

Gregory Matthew Manrodt

Chief Architect | Software Architect & Engineering Leader

Maple Grove, Minnesota, US
651.977.9417
English

Background


About

About

Chief Architect and hands-on technical leader with 25+ years of software engineering experience and 20+ years in consulting. Currently the lead technologist at 3PH Alliance, where he architects and builds a portfolio of proprietary clinical-trial and SaaS platforms, operating simultaneously as product owner, architect, and lead engineer. Deep expertise in .NET/C#, Azure cloud architecture, and regulated (clinical trial) software design, with a track record of taking products from concept to production for clients in healthcare, retail, manufacturing, financial services, and non-profit sectors on platforms including Umbraco, Sitecore, and BigCommerce.

Work Experience

Work Experience

  • Chief Architect, 3PH Alliance

    Jun, 2025 - Present

    As Chief Architect and lead technologist at 3PH Alliance, Greg operates simultaneously as product owner, architect, lead engineer, and technical strategist across five concurrent product initiatives, spanning a proprietary clinical-trial technology suite. He has established the organization's multi-tenant SaaS architecture, Azure cloud strategy, and CI/CD practices, while defining the technical and compliance foundations required for regulated clinical trial software, including CDISC/SDTM alignment and audit trail design.

    • Serve as sole Chief Architect and lead technologist for the organization, concurrently acting as product owner, lead engineer, and technical strategist across 5 simultaneous product initiatives

    • Founded and architected Anvil, a clinical trial EDC/CTMS platform, defining CDISC/SDTM-aligned data models, audit trails, CRF design, and query management workflows

    • Designed and built Crucible (integration platform) and Cortex (analytics/reporting) as proprietary platform capabilities, reducing organizational dependence on third-party vendor systems

    • Established multi-tenant SaaS architecture, Azure cloud strategy, EF Core data modeling standards, and row-level security patterns adopted across the engineering organization

    • Modernized CI/CD by rebuilding Azure DevOps pipelines and YAML-based release automation, standardizing deployments and improving release reliability

    • Built Smith, an autonomous, Claude-powered engineering harness implementing multi-step adversarial code review to accelerate internal software delivery

    • Authored architecture decision records, data models, governance/compliance frameworks, and operational playbooks that serve as reusable technical IP across the organization

    • Administer access and governance for core engineering tools, including Azure DevOps, GitHub Enterprise (GitHub Copilot), and corporate Claude Console accounts

    • Act as escalation point for engineering teams, unblocking critical technical issues and directing architectural decisions across concurrent workstreams

  • Principal Engineer, RBA Consulting

    Apr, 2010 - Feb, 202514 years 10 months

    As a Principal Engineer at RBA, Greg was responsible for the technical architecture and development of a variety of client projects, including a large global manufacturer's public website, a national non-profit Umbraco implementation, a BigCommerce Enterprise implementation, and a top regional real estate company's Umbraco platform. He also coordinated development, infrastructure, and DevOps teams; performed code reviews for consistent quality and standards across the codebase; and led backlog grooming, prioritization, and bug triage.

    • Led development teams in the implementation of large, complex client projects

    • Designed and implemented solutions using Umbraco, Sitecore, BigCommerce, and custom .NET stacks

    • Championed use of software patterns and principles, such as SOLID, TDD, DDD, and BDD

    • Presented at internal and external events on topics such as Sitecore, Umbraco, and Azure

    • Mentored junior developers in software development best practices and patterns

  • Enterprise Consultant, Digineer

    Apr, 2004 - Apr, 20106 years

    As the Enterprise Consultant in the SharePoint and BizTalk practice at Digineer, Greg was responsible for the technical leadership of the SharePoint and BizTalk team.

    • Technical Lead for SharePoint and BizTalk team

    • Developed custom solutions for clients using SharePoint, BizTalk, Project Server and custom .NET stacks

    • Mentored junior developers in SharePoint development

    • Spoke at internal and external events, including the SharePoint User Group

  • Senior Systems Specialist, Boston Scientific (formerly Guidant Corp.)

    Jan, 1999 - Apr, 20045 years 3 months

    Greg was responsible for standards and best practices for all intranet development at Guidant Corporation. He also led development of the Guidant intranet, built on Microsoft technologies including ASP, ASP.NET, and SQL Server, and contributed to the integration of Active Directory and the conversion of applications from Oracle to SQL Server.

    • Developed global intranet applications

    • Supported intranet infrastructure

    • Integrated Active Directory look up using COM+

    • Migrated legacy apps from Oracle and MS Access to SQL Server

Projects Experience

Projects Experience

  • Anvil

    Jun, 2025 - Present

    Architected and led development of Anvil, 3PH Alliance's proprietary Electronic Data Capture (EDC) and Clinical Trial Management System (CTMS) platform, designed to align with CDISC/SDTM standards and support regulated clinical trial workflows including study management, CRF design, query management, and audit trails.

    • Defined product scope, MVP, and roadmap as product owner

    • Designed CDISC/SDTM-aligned data model and audit trail architecture

    • Led engineering implementation while serving as lead architect and engineer

    • React, .NET Core API, PostgreSql, Azure

  • SMITH

    Jun, 2025 - Present

    Built SMITH (Smith's Modular Intelligent Task Harness), an autonomous software engineering harness powered by Claude (Anthropic), implementing a multi-step, adversarial review process (SATAN, Smith's Adversarial Testing and Analysis Network) to accelerate and improve the quality of internal software delivery.

  • Minnesota Hospital Association

    Jan, 2024 - Feb, 20251 year 1 month

    As the technical architect on the Minnesota Hospital Association engagement, Greg was responsible for evaluating their legacy platforms and designing a new solution to meet their needs. The new solution was built on Umbraco v15, and included integrations with Salesforce, Power BI, and MS Fabric. Greg also acted as engineering lead, coordinating the development team and ensuring the quality of the final product, which consolidated 6 separate .NET applications into a single, cohesive platform.

    • Umbraco v15

    • Umbraco Forms

    • Salesforce

    • MS Fabric

    • PowerBI

    • Azure DevOps

  • Panda Health

    Jun, 2024 - Sep, 20243 months

    Greg engaged early in the sales process to understand requirements, then designed a solution for Panda Health to better manage their health research platform. The solution was built on Umbraco v13, hosted on Umbraco Cloud. While leading the engineering team, Greg also integrated OAuth with Azure Active Directory (Entra) and engineered the data migration from Postgres to Umbraco.

    • Acted as technical support during the sales process

    • Participated in discovery and requirements-gathering sessions with the client

    • Architected the solution and led the engineering team from conception through launch

    • Implemented a custom solution using Umbraco and Umbraco Cloud for a new health research platform

    • Integrated Azure Active Directory (Entra) B2C for external user authentication

    • Migrated data from a legacy Postgres platform to Umbraco Cloud using a custom import process supporting stop/resume, data validation and conversion, incremental import, and Umbraco backoffice integration

  • H.B. Fuller

    Jul, 2023 - Feb, 20251 year 7 months

    H.B. Fuller contracted RBA to provide technical architecture and development services for their public website. As Technical Architect, Greg led the engineering team, designed implementation patterns, reviewed code, and ensured the quality of the final product, including engineering the Coveo integration using Coveo for Sitecore SXA components and custom components and event handlers.

    • Mentored the engineering team on Sitecore best practices and patterns, including Helix, multisite setup, proper use of dependency injection, and Unicorn

    • Enforced a review process with the engineering team to ensure quality and consistency of code

    • Coordinated infrastructure and DevOps teams to establish an infrastructure plan and ensure consistent, repeatable deployments

    • Integrated Coveo search for Sitecore, blogs, and external sites, including News, Investments, Careers, and Products

    • Designed and implemented Iubenda for cookie consent, integrated with Sitecore Analytics, Coveo Analytics, Dynatrace, and Google Analytics

    • Implemented Cloudflare for performance, redirects, and security

    • Contributed technical architecture to global alignment on the marketing automation platform

  • World Block

    Oct, 2022 - Feb, 20252 years 4 months

    Greg evaluated World Block's commerce needs, including the limitations of their existing platform, and performed a technical assessment of BigCommerce, Shopify, Shopify Plus, and Wix Commerce. He recommended BigCommerce as a replacement for the legacy Drupal site, led the engineering team through implementation, and integrated ShipperHQ for shipping rate calculations and Authorize.NET for payment processing.

  • Conning

    Dec, 2022 - Sep, 20239 months

    Greg implemented a solution to continuously transfer GA4 data from Google BigQuery to Conning's legacy Postgres database so the data could be used in their existing reporting tools, designing an Azure Function App to perform the transfer along with a custom logging solution to track success and failure.

  • Center for Nutrition and Health Impact

    Oct, 2020 - Sep, 20243 years 11 months

  • Caleres

    Sep, 2018 - Apr, 20201 year 7 months

  • Edina Realty

    Jun, 2015 - Dec, 20183 years 6 months

  • Best Buy

    Dec, 2014 - Jun, 20156 months

  • VRad

    May, 2014 - Jul, 20142 months

  • Scholarship America

    May, 2013 - May, 20141 year

  • Piper Jaffray

    Apr, 2012 - Dec, 20128 months

  • LI Group

    May, 2011 - Apr, 201211 months

  • Cargill

    Dec, 2010 - May, 20115 months

  • Ceridian

    Apr, 2010 - Dec, 20108 months

Skills

Skills

  • Architecture & Technical Leadership

    Solution & Enterprise Architecture

    Multi-Tenant SaaS Design

    Domain-Driven Design

    Microservices

    Technical Strategy

    Product Ownership

  • Cloud & DevOps

    Microsoft Azure

    Azure DevOps

    CI/CD (YAML Pipelines)

    Azure Functions

    Azure PaaS

    Release Automation

  • .NET & Data

    C#

    ASP.NET / .NET

    Entity Framework Core

    SQL Server

    Postgres

    Row-Level Security

  • CMS & Commerce Platforms

    Umbraco

    Sitecore (SXA)

    BigCommerce

    Sitecore Commerce

  • Clinical & Regulated Software

    EDC

    CTMS

    CDISC / SDTM

    ODM

    Audit Trails

    Study Management

    Compliance Documentation

  • Integrations & Analytics

    Coveo

    Salesforce

    HubSpot

    Google BigQuery

    Power BI

    GA4

    Elasticsearch

  • AI-Assisted Engineering

    Claude / LLM Tooling

    Agentic Engineering Workflows

    Automated / Adversarial Code Review

    GitHub Copilot

Education

Education

  • Mathematics, B.S., Emory University

    Aug, 1994 - May, 1998

Publications

Publications

  • Maximum Sustainable Throughput (MST) for BizTalk, BizTalk Hotrod Magazine

    Published on:

    Article on techniques for achieving maximum sustainable throughput in BizTalk Server implementations.