Nicholas D
Principal & Founder At Kortex.ai Inc at Abram Inc
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNicholas D is a physician-entrepreneur and software engineer who bridges frontline emergency medicine with applied data science and full-stack development. As Founder and CEO of Kortex.ai, he leads efforts to apply AI and NLP to streamline clinical documentation, informed by 15+ years of ED experience and ongoing patient care at Glendale Adventist. He has a strong engineering pedigree—contributing to open-source projects from Rust game engine rendering and Clippy lints to data pipelines for the /r/place Atlas and audio/visual fixes in the Etterna rhythm game—demonstrating proficiency across backend systems, rendering math, and data ingestion. Currently pursuing a master’s in data science, he pairs rigorous clinical insight with hands-on coding to build pragmatic tools that improve workflows and patient outcomes. Nicholas’ background as a locum tenens physician and independent developer gives him rare exposure to diverse clinical environments and the practical constraints that shape usable healthcare technology.
9 years of coding experience
Residency, Residency at Michigan State University College of Human MedicineAssociate of Science, Associate of Science at Grand Rapids Community CollegeDoctor of Medicine, Doctor of Medicine at Wayne State University School of MedicineMaster's degree, Master's degree at University of MichiganBachelor of Sciences, Bachelor of Sciences at Grand Valley State University
Github Skills (26)
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code-analysis10
data-processing10
r-api10
linting10
rust10
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Programming languages (28)
Github contributions (5)
etternagame/etterna
Jun 2017 - Jan 2023
Advanced cross-platform rhythm game focused on keyboard play
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 2 reviews, 1107 commits in 5 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Nicholas's commits primarily focus on enhancing and debugging the game's core functionality, particularly within the audio and visual aspects. The changes indicate improvements to the audio visualizer, adjustments to the music rate display, and fixes to the display and use of replay data. There are also modifications to the UI. The commits involve the direct modification of code in the visual and audio areas of the game.
gamerhythm-gamefocusedkeyboardcross-platform
placeAtlas/atlas-2022
Apr 2022 - Apr 2022
The /r/place Atlas is a project aiming to catalog all the artworks created during Reddit's 2022 /r/place event.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 reviews, 170 commits, 170 PRs in 7 days
Contributions summary:Nicholas primarily focused on improving the data ingestion and processing pipeline of the /r/place Atlas project. Their commits involved debugging and fixing encoding issues in the Reddit crawling script, improving newline and quote handling, and ensuring valid JSON output. The user also added and fixed counters, and refined the crawler to correctly fetch and process entries from the Reddit API.
placeartworksjavascriptaimingatlas
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