PhD (AI/ML) | MD | MBA
Physician-scientist with a PhD in AI/ML and an MBA. I advise and build healthcare-grade AI systems. Founder of Alixir & Mode7 Labs.
About
I work at the intersection of medicine, artificial intelligence, and system design—where abstraction breaks down and mistakes carry real consequences. Trained as a medical doctor with a PhD in AI and an MBA, I’ve moved deliberately between disciplines to understand not just how systems work, but how they fail in the real world.
I’ve led and advised teams building healthcare and deep-tech systems where correctness, interpretability, and trust are non-negotiable. From clinical decision contexts to production LLM systems, my focus is on the parts most teams underestimate: system boundaries, hidden assumptions, and operational risk.
I believe the most valuable technology is the kind that disappears into the workflow—quiet, precise, and dependable enough that people stop thinking about it and start relying on it.
Services
Technical Strategy
Guiding architectural and AI decisions under real-world constraints. I help teams evaluate technology choices and long-term direction with engineering rigour and an understanding of how systems behave when correctness, safety, and trust matter.
Systems Architecture
Designing distributed systems, data platforms, and AI infrastructure built for production reality. I bring clarity to complex technical landscapes and leave behind architectures that are explainable, observable, and resilient over time.
Engineering Leadership
Advising founders and executive teams on engineering culture, hiring, and execution in high-stakes environments. I help organizations build practices that prioritise clarity, accountability, and long-term technical health.
Product Engineering
Building software from concept to production in domains where failure is expensive. I focus on correctness, usability, and operational reliability—the details that separate compelling demos from software people actually trust.
Recent Work
A selection of recent projects spanning healthcare, applied AI, and complex system design. My role varies between founder, advisor, and hands-on architect depending on where clarity and leverage are most needed.
Alixir
Co-Founder and CTO of Sydney-based Alixir, who develop AI-led mammographic breast cancer screening tools for emerging economies, and deliver state-of-the-art inference on benchmark datasets such as OPTIMAM and InBreast.
TraceLM
Founder and architect of a large language model (LLM) observability and explainability platform, with human-in-the-loop aspects and time-travel debugging, leading towards SOC-2 and HIPAA compliant visibility.
UTS
I have collaborated with the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) for almost a decade, on research spanning computer vision, health policy, applied mammographic AI and data science.
Westfield
Re-engineered, modernised and architected Westfield's e-commerce data pipeline to facilitate ease of integration into third-party platforms without compromising compliance or security.
Ramsay Health
Worked with Ramsay Health to audit their current infrastructure, and explore secure and compliant AI opportunities within their large Australian hospital group.
Raceway
Lead maintainer for the open-source distributed systems debugging platform Raceway, which is written in Rust, and aims to detect subtle thread concurrency issues through vector clock analysis.
From peer-reviewed research in AI and medical imaging to a book challenging how we build startups in regulated industries.
Contact
Whether you are navigating a critical technical decision, scaling a team through rapid growth, or rethinking your architecture from first principles, I would welcome the conversation.