John Emerson
Founder And Builder at CancerX
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Emerson is a versatile founder and product leader with 11 years of experience designing and scaling AI-enabled healthcare and consumer products from early-stage startups to enterprise programs. He has repeatedly translated complex workflows into practical, revenue-generating solutions—launching AI agents that improved patient re-engagement tenfold, orchestrating statewide COVID testing and vaccination platforms, and building RAG-powered tools for niche communities like fencing families. Equally comfortable in strategy and hands-on delivery, he blends MBA-trained market rigor with product, UX and engineering chops to guide teams through research, go-to-market and rapid iteration. John’s current work spans generative AI for clinical and elective provider workflows and a passion project that applies software best practices and AI-assisted development to the sport of fencing. Based in Denver, he pairs public-sector program experience and board-level advising with a human-rights–minded approach to design and code.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Government, Chinese, BA, Government, Chinese at Harvard UniversityMaster of Business Administration - MBA, Marketing, Strategy, Branding, Master of Business Administration - MBA, Marketing, Strategy, Branding at University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business
English, Chinese
Github Skills (30)
artwork10
extendscript10
photoshop10
adobe-illustrator10
adobe8
django-blog8
plotter7
django-project7
transparency6
robotics6
digital-humanities6
tagging6
edward5
hardware5
metadata5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
pressnyc/pressnyc.github.io
Sep 2021 - Mar 2025
Contributions:67 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 6 months
pressnyc/nyc-doe-covid-interventions
Aug 2021 - Dec 2022
Contributions:169 commits, 108 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
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