Chris Culhane
Lead Backend Developer at Affinda
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Culhane is a multidisciplinary engineer-turned-clinician who blends eight years of mechanical design, medical device development and backend software engineering to improve surgical workflows and patient outcomes. He has led backend engineering at an AI startup, shipping Python-based model deployments and APIs, while simultaneously building production automation tools for total knee replacement within an ISO13485 QMS. Now training in medicine and gaining psychiatric experience as a General HMO, he intentionally brings technical rigor closer to bedside care to fuse engineering solutions with clinical practice. Chris is comfortable across CAD/FEA, embedded surgical instrument design, Python backend systems, and deployment stacks (PyTorch, Docker, TorchServe), and he trains others in maintainable development practices. An uncommon thread through his career is translating surgeon needs into production-ready software and hardware—moving from 3D-printed prototypes and patents to scalable AI services. Based in Melbourne, he aims to combine technology and clinical practice to deliver measurable improvements in patient care.
7 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Applied Mathematics, Physiology) / BEng (Mechanical), BSc (Applied Mathematics, Physiology) / BEng (Mechanical) at North Carolina State UniversityDoctor of Medicine - MD, Medicine, Doctor of Medicine - MD, Medicine at Deakin UniversityMelbourne High SchoolBSc (Applied Mathematics, Physiology) / BEng (Mechanical), BSc (Applied Mathematics, Physiology) / BEng (Mechanical) at Monash University
Github Skills (166)
client-library10
api10
eye-tracking10
depth-camera10
packaging10
javascript9
code-generator9
dependency-management9
classifier9
python9
wordnet9
resolver9
optimization9
serve9
closed9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
DeakinMeDUSA/medusa_website
Nov 2020 - Aug 2022
Contributions:2 releases, 322 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
affinda/affinda-dotnet
Sep 2021 - Mar 2024
Contributions:24 releases, 101 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 7 months
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