Hisham Al-shurafa
Co-Founder & CEO at Essential Health Systems Inc.
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Top SchoolHisham Al-shurafa is a founder-CEO and hands-on software leader with 11 years of experience building healthcare technology and telemedicine products from concept to exit. He co-founded SnapDx (acquired for medical research) and now leads Essential Health Systems, having spun out EssentialClinic.ca from his long-running healthcare software studio Pixineers. Equally comfortable writing production C++ at Amazon and shipping web-based clinical tools, he bridges product, engineering, and go-to-market execution—able to deduce customer needs, code solutions, and scale businesses. His background includes enterprise CRM product ownership, early-stage commercial wins in medical innovation competitions, and writing about tech-health intersections for mainstream media. Based in Calgary, he combines startup grit with enterprise-grade operational experience and a track record of turning clinical workflows into revenue-generating software. An underrated strength is his history of shipping pragmatic integrations (e.g., Outlook/Exchange sync and visualization tools) that make complex systems actually usable for clinicians and patients.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Saunders Secondary SchoolB. A. Sc. Systems Design Engineering, B. A. Sc. Systems Design Engineering at University of Waterloo
English, Arabic
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
dynamic-forms10
amazon-cognito10
multiselect10
testing10
autocomplete10
serverless10
web-development10
sortable10
ng10
balloon10
pdfkit10
custom-domain10
pouchdb10
firefox10
voice10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
hisham/three20
Jan 2015 - Mar 2021
Contributions:18 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 2 months
objective-ccocoapodsobjective-c-libraryiphonec-library
hisham/appfigures
May 2015 - Mar 2018
Contributions:1 PR, 7 pushes, 1 comment in 2 years 11 months
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