Ghufran Syed
Emergency Medicine Physician at Vituity
Menlo Park, California, United States
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Top SchoolGhufran Syed is an emergency medicine physician, entrepreneur, and engineer with 12 years of cross-disciplinary experience building startups, clinical programs, and space medicine initiatives. He pairs deep clinical practice in high-acuity EDs and space medicine fellowships with hands-on full-stack software and cloud engineering skills (Python, Ruby/Rails, Clojure, React, AWS, Docker). Founder of multiple startups including a telemedicine marketplace and a space station venture, he focuses on pragmatic, customer-driven technical solutions and operational optimization. His work spans product design to low-level engineering studies for space infrastructure, reflecting a rare blend of clinical, mathematical, and aerospace training. Academically he holds advanced degrees in medicine, math/statistics, and is pursuing MS work in aerospace engineering, demonstrating continual technical growth. Based in Menlo Park, he uniquely combines frontline medical experience with systems engineering instincts—often applying data-driven engineering approaches to improve care delivery and complex program design.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of LondonBS, Mechanical Engineering, Cumulative Engineering GPA 3.97, BS, Mechanical Engineering, Cumulative Engineering GPA 3.97 at The University of AlabamaUniversity College LondonSan José State UniversityTIFFIN SCHOOLMBA, Finance, General, MBA, Finance, General at London Business SchoolDoctor of Medicine (M.D.), Medicine, Doctor of Medicine (M.D.), Medicine at University of SouthamptonEmergency Medicine Residency Program, Emergency Medicine Residency Program at University of California, Los AngelesMaster of Science - MS, Mathematics, 3.96, Master of Science - MS, Mathematics, 3.96 at California State University - East BayEngineering Science, 3.97, Engineering Science, 3.97 at Finger Lakes Community College
Spanish, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (47)
reagent9
re-frame9
clojurescript9
react9
oauth-client7
chrome7
clojure7
babashka7
jupyter-notebook7
nginx6
epl6
firefox6
amazon-ec26
clrs6
http6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ghufransyed/simply_scheme
Sep 2013 - Sep 2014
Contributions:30 commits in 11 months
ghufransyed/mit-algorithms-cse373-cslr-exercises
Nov 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 16 days
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