I’m a doctor, software engineer and founder of OpenRegulatory. You can also follow me on LinkedIn and X / Twitter 🙂
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Bio
I started coding when I was twelve even though it’s quite a stretch to call writing hacky php scripts coding. I ended up graduating as a Medical Doctor. While doing MRI research for my doctorate thesis, I got reminded how fun coding was and realized how broken medical software is.
I taught myself programming and started working on medical software. Right now, I think improving software is one of the largest levers we have for improving healthcare.
Projects
I did quite some radiology research for my doctorate thesis, mainly with Matlab.
At some stage, I was intrigued whether masturbation had an effect on our behaviour, specifically, our mood, energy and libido. Quite obviously, this is a problem which can be solved with an app, so I developed an app together with my friend Chris: NofApp (it may have been taken down by the Play Store by now).
I worked as a React Native developer for phellow seven developing a patient-centric Electronic Health Record app.
I developed a dating app called Philter (also offline by now) which lets you filter (haha) people close to you based on your answers to yes/no questions.
I used to work at Merantix (later Merantix Healthcare) where we developed medical software. I was the first non-ML software engineer and doctor to join, built our software engineering team and got our product certified as a medical device. Those were good times.
I left because I wanted to build new things again.
In the next five years (2020-2024), I built OpenRegulatory, a consultancy and SaaS for medical device compliance. It’s bootstrapped, owned 100% by me and profitable. Currently 5 people in total!
One the side, I built Digital Health Jobs and Beudamed.