João Magalhães
Co-Founder And CPTO at Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade do Porto
Porto, Porto, Portugal
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Top SchoolJoão Magalhães is a physician-turned-technology founder with 14 years of experience building healthcare software and scaling digital care products internationally. As Co-Founder and CPTO of knok healthcare since 2015 he led an API-first, AI-ready platform that enabled over 2.5 million clinical interactions across 12 countries, translating frontline clinical practice into product-led automation. He previously founded Iterar and VR Care, shipping pragmatic healthcare solutions from medication management systems to VR therapy for flying phobia, and continues to teach medical informatics as an invited professor at FMUP. Trained in medicine with a thesis on EHR interoperability and pursuing an Executive MBA at UCL, he blends clinical credibility, hands-on development, and strategic product leadership to remove technical barriers in care delivery. An uncommon strength is his ability to bridge bedside insights with engineering decisions, turning clinical workflows into scalable, integrable platforms.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Medicine, Master's degree Medicine at Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade do PortoUniversity College London
English, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian
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android
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Github Skills (18)
android9
retrofit6
android-layout6
android-view6
android-espresso6
java6
json6
android-gradle-plugin6
react-native6
rails-gem4
jquery3
restful3
rails3
ruby2
unobtrusive2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
Iterar/pullall
Nov 2012 - Nov 2012
Contributions:31 commits in 2 days
knok-healthcare/.github
Jul 2019 - Jul 2019
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 16 days
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