Practice
Translating policy and research into operating rules teams can use every day.
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Product and systems leader helping teams ship safer products with clearer decisions and steadier execution.
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Practice
Translating policy and research into operating rules teams can use every day.
Perspective
Neurodiversity-informed design that protects operators and end users alike.
Leadership
Collaborative partner to founders, civic teams, and health orgs shipping accountable products.
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About Kanav
Snapshot
Focus
Healthcare AI safety, alignment-to-product translation, and safety cases that survive audits.
Current work
Advising teams on clinical evaluations, incident review, overrides, appeals, and escalation paths that hold under load.
Investing
Backing early-stage teams and pushing for operator-first product cultures that can scale.
Based
Chicago · working with distributed teams.
I’ve worked inside systems that spoke fluently about safety, ethics, and care—while relying on procedures that made harm nobody’s job to stop. Over time, it became clear that values language without binding mechanisms doesn’t prevent damage; it just distributes it quietly.
I don’t trust principles unless they are backed by constraints that force decisions, log authority, and make deferral expensive. Bindingness is simply when a system makes decisions stick—for example, an escalation clock that auto-routes after 48 hours instead of letting a request sit “in review.” My practice exists to close that gap.

Now
I partner with post-PMF health and AI teams to reduce operational burden and clarify workflow ownership.
Then
Built products inside clinical systems and founder-led companies, including Doximity Dialer (100M+ patient–clinician connections) and Andwise.
Why it matters
Lived neurodiversity and patient-safety work keep my focus on humane defaults and durable accountability.
How I work
I translate risk into observable signals, design escalation paths, and keep workflows auditable and accessible.
Jump links
I'm a product and operations leader working at the intersection of healthcare workflows, escalation pressure, and clinical care.
I chose to leave med school and joined the early team at Doximity, where I led Doximity Dialer, now enabling 100M+ patient–clinician connections.
I later co-founded Andwise with Dr. Varun Verma and served as CEO, building physician financial-wellness products with a 60-member medical advisory board. That work taught me how hard it is to make patient safety, privacy, and reliability real in production.
I received my autism diagnosis in 2024. My advocacy for neurodiversity and cognitive justice shows up in how I design: clear defaults, explicit escalation paths, and systems that don't require charm or stamina to be treated fairly.
Accessibility is part of safety: screen reader checks, reduced motion, and plain-language summaries.
Outside of work, I married Aditi Mukund in 2025 (ad1ti.com), and we spend most evenings being supervised by our cats, Selene and Apollo.
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Milestones
How key moments map to this journey.
Guiding principles
I translate research on neurodiversity, patient safety, and market dynamics into actionable product moves.
Build flows that reduce cognitive load, respect consent, and widen participation instead of gatekeeping it.
Pair qualitative fieldwork with quantitative telemetry to replace harmful heuristics with measurable care outcomes.
Keep humans in the loop with explainable AI, handoffs that feel human, and quality guardrails for sensitive decisions.
Research
Selected investigations
Patterns from pairing fieldwork, policy, and product experiments to keep systems corrigible.
Community leadership
Mutual aid & mentorship
Spaces where I practice shared stewardship and build infrastructure for neighbors and peers.
Education
Foundations
Grounding in biomedical engineering and systems-minded business leadership.
Finance and technology focus, paired with product leadership in regulated markets and accountable governance.
Human-centered clinical systems, pairing biomechanics and design research to make care safer and more accessible.
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