Our society often rewards specialization, but I’ve always questioned rigid labels and linear paths. That mindset has helped me adapt across environments, molding myself to the problem at hand.
Lately, I’ve been thinking about how we can use AI to support industries like healthcare. Building technology for under-resourced, but highly-regulated industries present incredible challenges that I’m interested in solving. Over the next 30 years, I hope we make meaningful progress with AI technology:
- Global knowledge sharing: Share medical knowledge across borders and improve care for patients everywhere
- Clinician support: The demand for care already outpaces the number of doctors. How can we support their work and reduce burnout?
- Accelerating complex research: We need faster ways to unlock answers in pharma and biomedical research for complex diseases like Alzheimers
In 2020, I contributed to my first healthcare project, helpwithcovid.com, an open-source pandemic relief initiative launched by Sam Altman and Radu Spineanu. Over 6mo, we partnered with hundreds of volunteer-led projects and industry leaders to address critical gaps exposed by COVID:
- Frontline medical supply shortages: N95s, PPE, ventilators (Frontline Suits, PPE Coalition, and 1 Million Ventilators)
- Research infrastructure: clinical trials, symptom and biomarker tracking, case cluster tracking (The COVID Tracking Project, VitalSigns AI)
- Hospital capacity: staff shortages, overwhelmed triage systems (ApolloHCT, iFixIt)
- Equity for vulnerable communities: low-income students, elderly care, immunocompromised patients (SchoolClosures, Guardiome)
We open-sourced the platform so anyone globally could contribute, adapt it to their needs, and build solutions tailored to their local context.
Outside of healthcare, I’ve built a diverse view of market dynamics from roles at Palmstreet, Buji, and Intel. I spent three years in the consumer live shopping industry, building in 0 → 1 marketplace dynamics, launching GTM strategies from scratch. Before that, I spent 4.5 years at Intel, operating across multiple cycles of supply constrained/surplus environments. We launched sixteen SSD data center and client product lines during my tenure.
I studied Management Science and Cognitive Science at UCSD.
If you find my background interesting, I’d love to chat about these topics:
- Data sourcing/creation bottlenecks
- Equitable global implementation strategies
- Scaling domain expertise in feedback loops
Or, if you just want to share something unexpectedly profound, I’m also down.