Résumé

Kanav Jain

Healthcare product leader and independent software builder. For the last two years I founded NextConsensus, built Ambit and Refract, developed Stims, and designed Fast Harm, a draft recovery-evaluation scaffold. Before that, I spent 14 years shipping products at Epic, Doximity, Transcarent, and CancerCompass, including Doximity Dialer, now carrying more than 300,000 calls on an average workday across 250+ health systems. I’m looking for roles where product judgment and technical creation cannot be separated.

Chicago, IL

Independent Product Builder

NextConsensus, Ambit, Stims

2024–present

Built and shipped three technically substantial products: NextConsensus (claim-trajectory reconstruction for biopharma), Ambit (agent capability and authorization mapping, MIT-licensed), and Stims (a browser-native MilkDrop-style visualizer). Refract supplies deterministic change-tracking beneath NextConsensus; Fast Harm and Whether extend the evaluation and data-product work. Self-funded, not raising; it runs outside working hours.

  • Founded and lead NextConsensus: claim-trajectory reconstruction for biopharma Medical Affairs, delivered with the revision history behind every ranking. The forecasting research registers and freezes each forecast before the outcome is known, then scores it against public resolution rules.
  • Built two open-source engines. Refract (AGPL-3.0) replays a source's revision history into byte-reproducible change events: when a claim first appeared, whether its hedging strengthened or weakened, whether it survived reversion, what editors disputed. A daily production bot runs it, published as a corpus of 16,146 events bound by the manifest. Ambit (MIT-licensed) models an agent's tool access and the authority over it, so a standing permission stops running unattended the moment the capability underneath it fails its check rather than staying open until someone notices.
  • Built Stims as a standalone engineering product: a browser-native MilkDrop-style visualizer with 1,787 presets, direct .milk compilation, live editing, WebGL2/WebGPU rendering, in-browser recording, and a projectM reference harness. The repository has been actively developed since October 2024.

Co-Founder and CEO

Andwise

2022–2024

Co-founded and led a physician financial-wellness company across product, funding, and go-to-market. The product gave doctors trusted decision support for contracts, debt, and the transition from training to practice.

  • Built the Contract Analyzer: automated clause-level analysis flagging risky terms in physician contracts. Legal content authored by a JD; product explicitly stopped at analysis, not legal advice.
  • Raised $240K in initial funding, grew to 1,200+ physician users and a 700-member community.
  • Convened a physician medical advisory board, which set the review protocols the product had to follow — they governed that layer, not me.

Director of Product, Care Experiences

Transcarent

2021–2022

Early product hire. Led Surgery, everyday urgent care, Behavioral Health, and Oncology Care from the first activated member through 200+ FTEs, during the run-up that took the company to a $1.6B implied valuation.

  • Led the Cancer & Decision Support pod: shipped CancerCare v1, a symptom-checking triage tool (including pediatrics) that inferred the right care pathway from reported symptoms, Healthwise content integration, and an in-app second-opinion experience with automated handoff to Nurse Ally through Consumer Medical.
  • Designed automated routing rules tied to clinical roles across four specialty-care programs. The system assigned each case to the right clinician, while nurses and navigators worked from a shared record during live care coordination.
  • Managed two product managers across four specialty-care programs.

Director of Digital Products & Strategy

CancerCompass / CTCA Marketplace

2019–2021

Directed digital product strategy and platform execution for CancerCompass / CTCA Marketplace, an oncology information and navigation platform serving 30MM annual visitors (CTCA was later acquired by City of Hope).

  • First product and technical hire for a pre-CEO, pre-revenue PE-backed corporate venture, through its growth from 2 to 25 FTEs.
  • Led a cross-functional R&D team of 14 onshore and offshore across three products: the health information site (30MM annual visitors), a hospital digital-marketing platform, and a patient-engagement web app.
  • Reduced bounce rate by 25%, increased chat conversions by 267%, and raised time on page by 40% through iterative multivariate testing.

Head of Mobile Products & Growth

Doximity — Hiring & Hospital Marketing; Search & User Growth; Mobile Apps

2013–2017

Joined as a Product Manager and left running user growth and the mobile portfolio after a July 2016 promotion. Nine product launches across four years, teams of three to ten, and founding product lead for Doximity Dialer.

  • As founding product lead for Doximity Dialer, proved over a weekend that outbound calls could carry an unverified caller ID, and launched on that route deliberately: Doximity's physician identity verification stood behind the number, with no clinical decision riding on the call. Partnered with legal and hospital IT to clear EHR integration, including Epic Haiku. Dialer now carries more than 300,000 calls on an average workday, across 250+ hospitals and health systems.
  • Grew Talent Finder revenue 60% YoY to $5M across 1,000+ physician recruiters and 400+ paying clients, earning 1.8M monthly impressions and managing a team of four web engineers, a UX designer, a data scientist, and a QA engineer. Built the enterprise marketing platform used by 6 of the top 10 U.S. research hospitals to identify likely referrers for their specialty physicians.
  • Ran a national physician compensation survey: 35,000+ unique, ID-verified respondents in one year. Directed the data-science team that turned it into a predictive salary model by U.S. county and medical specialty, trained on 25+ public and private data sources.

Technical Services Engineer

Epic

2012–2013

Led post-install success for two outpatient software clients and six patient web-portal clients through root-cause analysis, re-implementation, and custom Caché development where the base product couldn't reach. Co-lead for CMS PQRS.

  • Converted a 477-bed hospital and regional health organization from cancellation risk to reference account by resolving 95% of the outpatient issue list through root-cause analysis, re-implementation, and custom plug-in development.
  • Deployed MyChart web/mobile and EpicCare Link interoperability tools for a 514-bed research hospital, taking a 134-year-old health system online for the first time.
  • Co-led the five-person CMS Physician Quality Reporting subject-matter group and created its escalation path for regulatory issues and critical software bugs, from discovery and triage through customer notification.
Earlier roles — research, venture fellowships, and clinical quality (2009–2019)

Venture Fellow

Rough Draft Ventures (now GC Venture Fellows)

2018–2019

Evaluated seed-stage healthcare and deep-tech teams for General Catalyst's student-founder program, building diligence frameworks for technical and regulatory risk.

  • Built diligence frameworks evaluating clinical evidence strength, regulatory pathways, and EHR integration feasibility.
  • Designed product governance templates for early-stage teams navigating FDA, HIPAA, and healthcare procurement.

MBA Associate

Red Sea Ventures

Dec 2017–Jan 2019

Sourced and diligenced seed and Series A companies at a three-person, $50M thesis-driven fund. Met 100+ founders, wrote memos, presented recommendations to partners, and developed the firm's investment philosophy on the consumerization of healthcare.

  • Mapped investment thesis memos into post-close operating milestones and quarterly board reporting.
  • Structured portfolio reporting systems tracking clinical user retention and enterprise pilot progression.

Fellow

InSITE

2018–2019

Graduate-student fellowship in the New York cohort, placing fellows as consultants to early- and growth-stage startups.

  • Consulted to early- and growth-stage startups on product, regulatory, and market strategy.
  • Application included a full investment analysis of Phosphorus (NGS/liquid-biopsy diligence): business-model teardown, FDA regulatory-risk assessment, and comparable-company analysis.

Clinical Quality Analyst (pro bono)

Emory University Hospital

Sep–Nov 2013

Supported a surgical site infection reduction initiative through process development and data analysis.

  • Analyzed surgical site infection data and helped develop the process changes intended to bring the rate down.

Research Intern

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

2011

Studied cancer-derived exosomes and premalignant change linking lung cancer and COPD; established cross-department sample-collection protocols.

  • Investigated cancer-derived exosomes and their role in premalignant change linking lung cancer and COPD.
  • Established cross-department sample-collection protocols bridging thoracic surgery and research labs.

Research Assistant

Georgia Tech / NASA

2009–2012

Studied RNA folding dynamics and sRNA-mRNA interactions, focusing on gene regulation and thermodynamic inhibition.

  • Modeled thermodynamic folding dynamics, sRNA-mRNA interactions, and Hfq-mediated gene regulation.
  • First author on a chapter in the ACS Symposium Series (Vol. 1082, 2011) on the thermodynamics of sRNA–mRNA interactions and the role of Hfq. Presented at FASEB, BMES, and the ACC Meeting of the Minds — one of eight students selected institute-wide.

B.S. Biomedical Engineering (with honors)

Georgia Institute of Technology

2008–2012

Human-centered clinical systems. Capstone: a diabetes management portal with real-time feedback and clinical decision support — the first system I built that made recommendations to patients from their own data. Rebuilt the Biomedical Engineering Society from dormant to 250 members; BME Outstanding Leader of the Year, 2012.

MBA

NYU Stern School of Business

2019

Finance and technology focus, paired with product leadership in regulated markets. Came to business school by way of a decision made earlier: an MD admission deferred a year to try healthcare technology at Epic, then declined outright after that year.

Co-founder & organizer

BREAD

2015–present

Co-founded a not-for-profit event series and art collective to bring attention to local talent and make a place of self-expression for marginalized cultural groups. Produced 27 events across 18 venues between 2015 and 2024 with a team of four, ran a weekly radio show, and booked talent for SF clubs across bookings, budgets, venue coordination, and night-of logistics.

AI Deployment Readiness Clinical Workflow Routing EHR Integration Systems Evidence Verification Audit Trail Design