
Kartik Thakore
Verified Expert in Engineering
Data Science Developer
Santa Clara, CA, United States
Toptal member since January 20, 2023
Kartik is a technology leader, executive, and entrepreneur with experience in data analytics, ML, scaling technology teams, and AI domains. He has a proven track record of building teams, technologies, and operations from the ground up for startups and Fortune 50 clients. Kartik has worked closely with leaders in these companies to establish relationships and deliver market-leading solutions. To date, Kartik has been a part of three successful exits.
Portfolio
Experience
- Data Engineering - 13 years
- Data Science - 13 years
- Big Data - 11 years
- Technology Strategy & Architecture - 11 years
- Medical Software - 10 years
- HL7 FHIR Standard - 8 years
- Computer Vision - 7 years
- Fundraising - 5 years
Preferred Environment
Slack, Zoom, Business Strategy
The most amazing...
...product I've created is a computer vision application to extract and label medications from pills and medication bottles used for clinical trials.
Work Experience
Entrepreneur in Residence
Elevance Health
- Developed a business case and strategy for the C suite to invest in commercialization efforts.
- Collaborated with various cross-functional teams on aligning business goals and extracting technical constraints during my first two months at the company.
- Operationalized and kicked off a cross-department effort to begin foundational architecture, security compliance, and infrastructure requisitions.
Co-founder | CTO
Hammer Of The Gods
- Developed the first-ever prototype of TinyML containers using Rust, WebAssembly, and distributed computing, and raised seed funding with the prototype.
- Managed the end-to-end computer vision and privacy-preserving edge machine learning application for a property insurance customer from deployment to production.
- Built and grew the company from two to 15 employees and led the company to a successful exit.
VP of AI Engineering
doc.ai (acquired by Sharecare)
- Joined the company as the sixth employee and worked closely with the CEO, COO, and CTO. I built key technologies that directly led to the engagement with Anthem and the acquisition, which included digital clinical trials, operations, and medical CVs.
- Managed a team of 40+ people and worked closely with Anthem to deliver a $100+ million contract. This contract led to Sharecare acquiring doc.ai.
- Grew and managed a bioinformatics team to develop doc.ai's first genomics processing pipeline.
Senior Data Scientist
Better Doctor (acquired by Quest Analytics)
- Deployed Apache Spark with Apache EMR and Databricks for K-Means, LDA clustering with a proprietary set of features.
- Built a data team to drive R&D at BetterDoctor, focusing on anomaly detection using ontological approaches.
- Developed guidelines and roadmaps for business intelligence using Redshift, Looker, Spark, and PostgreSQL.
Experience
Smart Omix
https://www.sharecare.com/research/smartomixI created the app and launched the first two trials on the platform while collaborating with Harvard University, Stanford University, and Anthem. I also expanded the data engineering team to continue to manage, maintain, and support the growing product.
Rune by Hammer Of The Gods
https://github.com/hotg-ai/runeI built an initial prototype of Rune, raised funding, and recruited a team of security, Rust, and embedded software within two years.
The primary purpose of a Rune is to give developers working in machine learning and data processing a way to declare how data should be transformed using a high-level, declarative language. Creating a Rune file that defines each processing step and defers their implementation to the Rune runtime replaces the need to write code that manipulates data or requires interaction with complex third-party libraries to receive inputs. This process handles interaction with the outside world and can leverage existing third-party libraries for data manipulation.
Health OS for Anthem
I explored innovative solutions for Anthem, doc.ai's customer. I was involved in designing and building the first version of Health OS and growing the team internally with the goal of Anthem taking over.
Education
Master's Degree in Biomedical Engineering
Western University - London, ON, Canada
Bachelor's Degree in Software Engineering
Western University - London, ON, Canada
Skills
Tools
Slack, Zoom
Paradigms
HL7 FHIR Standard, Agile
Languages
Rust
Frameworks
Apache Spark, gRPC
Platforms
Mobile
Storage
Databases, MongoDB
Other
Computer Vision, Medical Software, Data Science, Data Engineering, Big Data, Technology Strategy & Architecture, Fundraising, Business Strategy, Storytelling, Computer Science, Operating Systems, Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure, Claims Processing, Generative Pre-trained Transformers (GPT), Natural Language Processing (NLP), Consulting, Machine Learning, Investor Presentations, Data Visualization, Pitch Decks, Go-to-market (GTM) Strategies, Go-to-market Plans, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Business Models, Business Services, Startups, Technical Hiring, Apps, Statistics, Deep Learning, Cloud, Digital Health, Mobile UX, Open Source, Containers, WebAssembly (Wasm), Healthcare IT, Medical Coding
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