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TL;DR

I’m a full-stack product engineer and product leader with 15 years experience designing, coding & leading software in startup environments.

I’ve been the technical founder of two YC startups.

My sweet spot is front-end design & engineering of applied-AI web apps.

Lately, I’ve been on a tear of rapidly building AI (LLM, Image, Voice, & RAG) apps in React, NextJS, & TailwindCSS (and Figma for UX/UI design):

• ESC RLLM - a text-based adventure game with an LLM as the game engine.
• Magellan - a voice AI agent that calls other voice AI agents to efficiently navigate and document their phone menus into flow charts.
• Hero.Rodeo - a superhero-trading card generator.
• Matchmaker - a RAG-powered chatbot who helps in team-formation.

I am proficient in building complex UX/UI designs in Figma and turning them to code.

I also have extensive client and customer-facing experience as a product leader, founder, and freelance app designer and developer.

Product Leadership Roles

I served as the VP of Product of DrChrono, a maker of med-tech software (PM/EHR) used by nearly 5,000 medical practices.

I led a startup-within-a-startup at RadicleScience designing and iterating on a new SaaS product with pilot customers.

I built IBDPartners, the leading decentralized clinical research platform in IBD (Inflammatory Bowel Disease).

I co-founded Crohnology (YC 12), where I built the largest (in its time) Crohn’s & Colitis health-tracking community on the web.

I co-founded MessageParty (YC S10), where I built a mobile messaging app that allowed users to chat with those physically near them.

Other Product Engineering Work

I built COVID-era software that enables organizers to host 1000+ participant virtual events over the phone.

I built a Google Docs Alternative for policy-writing, which uses votes to determine which edits go live.

To see more, check out the extensive online catalog of software I’ve built here.

Passion for Data for Research

A major theme of my work has been unlocking the power of data for research.

In the mid-2010s, I had 5 minutes of fame on national TV covering my Crohn’s Disease self-experimentation, and was interviewed/covered in many podcasts, articles, and mini-documentaries. I’ve published in peer-reviewed medical journals. See this coverage and read the articles.

I gave a talk at the very first Quantified Self Conference in 2011 on my self-experimentation in Crohn’s Disease.

Who Do I Follow?

I am a big fan of Marty Cagan and Lenny’s Podcast for product frameworks.

I’ve learned a lot from Paul Graham and Steve Blank’s lessons on entrepreneurship.

Want to Learn More?

• Linkedin Profile.
• Github Profile
• Google Scholar Profile.

Contact Me:

• Email my first name at this domain

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