Summary
Steve Damon is a technology leader and co-founder currently serving as CTO at Heartvue.ai, bringing a decade of experience at the intersection of medical imaging and scalable cloud systems. He has led engineering teams at iHeartMedia and built high-throughput imaging platforms at Vanderbilt that process hundreds of millions of clinical images and accelerate workflows by orders of magnitude. His work spans end-to-end image processing, bioinformatics, and production backend services—translating research-grade MRI pipelines into reliable, auditable systems used in publications and clinical workflows. Known for pragmatic automation, he has built GUI tools, fast PostgreSQL APIs for XNAT, and multi-modal analysis pipelines that reduced routine task times by 1000x. Based in Nashville, he combines hands-on engineering with strategic product vision to commercialize cardiac imaging innovations. A background in Imaging Science from RIT underpins his rare blend of domain expertise and systems engineering.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Imaging Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Imaging Science at Rochester Institute of Technology