Summary
Arif Bandali is a pragmatic technology leader and founder with 11 years of hands-on software experience and a decade-plus history building products that turn messy data into actionable workflows. Currently CTO at Digital Health Strategies, he previously founded Arbour Medical to ingest and analyze disparate billing systems for physicians and has steered product and engineering at startups from early napkin-stage to acquisition. Equally comfortable designing systems and shipping code, he favors rapid iteration to get usable products in stakeholders’ hands quickly. His background blends technical depth from a McGill CS degree with business strategy from an MBA in Entrepreneurship, enabling him to bridge product, data, and commercialization. Notably, he has shipped single-handed mobile apps and cross-platform notification tooling, and helped grow teams and revenue dramatically at early-stage ventures.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
MBA, Entrepreneurship and Innovation, MBA, Entrepreneurship and Innovation at University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management
B. Sc., Computer Science, B. Sc., Computer Science at McGill University