Michoel Burger

About

The short version

I've been building software for over fifteen years, mostly in healthcare. I was a founding engineer at Hospital IQ, managed engineering teams at Regard, and now lead engineering at Neuroflow, a behavioral health platform. A lot of that work has been EHR integrations, data infrastructure, and figuring out how to get useful clinical tools into the hands of people who actually need them.

Somewhere along the way I noticed that the parts of my job I cared about most weren't really about code. They were about sitting across from someone on my team who was going through something hard and being useful in that conversation. I kept gravitating toward the people stuff — mentoring, hiring, helping folks navigate rough patches — and eventually I figured I should get proper training.

So now I'm also getting my MS in Mental Health Counseling at NYU Steinhardt. I don't plan to pick one career over the other. I like building things and I like talking to people, and I'm lucky that both of those can be the job.

Experience

Where I've been

Clinical Interests

Trauma-Informed Care · Couples & Family Counseling · Men's Mental Health · Anxiety & Depression · Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy · Multicultural Counseling · Substance Use & Addictive Disorders

Technical Strengths

Cloud & Infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Kubernetes) · EHR Integrations (Epic, Cerner, Athena) · AI/ML & LLMs · Health Data Systems (FHIR, HL7) · Security & Compliance (HIPAA, SOC 2, HITRUST, FedRAMP) · Python, TypeScript, PostgreSQL

Clinical & Counseling

MS, Mental Health Counseling

NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development

Expected 2027

Coursework in individual counseling theory, cross-cultural counseling, substance-related disorders, abnormal psychology
In progress: marriage, couple & family counseling; vocational development

Crisis Text Counselor

Crisis Text Line

2020 – 2021

Supported people in crisis — suicidal ideation, self-harm, depression
Risk assessments, safety planning, and working with supervisors on high-acuity cases

Course Developer & Mentor

Learning Lions · Turkana, Kenya

2018

Helped bring tech education to rural Kenya through course development and one-on-one mentoring.

The people side of engineering management

In every management role, the part I've cared most about is the people. Helping engineers figure out what they want to do next, being there when things get hard outside of work, and trying to build teams where people can actually be honest with each other.

Technology & Leadership

Senior Staff Engineer

Neuroflow · Behavioral health technology

2024 – Present (promoted from Director of Engineering)

Set architecture direction across multiple engineering teams
Built the health data automation engine and EHR integration platform
Rolled out AI coding tools across engineering with governance guardrails

Engineering Manager

Regard · Series B healthtech

2021 – 2023

Managed a 6-person team across Product and Platform
Reduced EHR integration timeline from 12 months to 29 days
Owned HIPAA and SOC 2 compliance; cut AWS costs by 25%

Staff Software Engineer

Hospital IQ (acquired by LeanTaaS)

2015 – 2020

Founding engineer. Grew into the architect role as the company scaled, and worked closely with the data science team on getting ML models working well in production.

Lead Software Developer

YouVisit (acquired by EAB)

2013 – 2015

Technical lead for an 8-person team during rapid growth.

Beyond Work

The rest of the picture

Improv

I signed up for a UCB improv class on a whim in 2014 and it kind of took over. I've trained at the Magnet Theater, PIT, and iO Chicago, and performed on stages from New York to Hanoi to Bangalore to Nottingham and around Scandinavia.

Improv has a lot in common with counseling, it turns out — you have to actually listen, let go of your own agenda, and work with whatever shows up. I also teach workshops and will happily nerd out about scene work over coffee.

UCB NY · Magnet Theater · PIT · iO Chicago · festivals in Barcelona, Finland, Sweden, Copenhagen, Cape Town, Bangkok

Travel

I've lived and worked from a lot of places. The map below shows some of where I've been.

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