Specialism
Medical platforms,built to clinical standards.
Clinical platforms and medical devices, built with founders and clinicians. James has shipped software portals and, earlier as CTO at Sana Health, the full stack from circuit boards through firmware and Bluetooth to the mobile app. Health and medical work is where he has the most depth, but it is not the only thing he builds.
How we build
Patient data and clinical risk change how you build.
Institutional buyers ask hard questions. These are designed in from the first sprint, not bolted on before a procurement call.
Data minimised
Only what the product needs. Recordings can be redacted.
Audit trails
Who saw what, and when, for clinical actions.
Role-based access
Trainees, experts, and admins each see their part.
Compliance-minded
Designed with NHS DSPT, GDPR, and HIPAA in mind from the first sprint.
Founder work
Shipped as founding engineer
James worked on both as founding engineer with The Utopia Studio. The ventures belong to their founders.
Mentix
Surgical mentorship on demand: trainee, mentor, and sponsor portals, live guidance, competency records, and Mentix TV. From clinical requirements to a working platform surgeons could use.
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SERVE
Care that comes to you: a nurse in the room for at-home assessments, observations, blood analysis, and a doctor-reviewed report. Built alongside a clinical founder.
Read the case notesHardware and firmware
Sana Health: full stack, board to app.
James was CTO. He still mainly ships software, but this is where the hardware depth comes from.
Wearable audiovisual therapy for recovery and mental wellbeing.
James was CTO at Sana Health, a medical device company building a wearable that uses audiovisual stimulation to support people with chronic pain, PTSD, and anxiety. He led the stack end to end: board schematics, electronics prototypes, firmware, Bluetooth, and the mobile apps that talk to the device. Today he mostly ships software, but that full-stack hardware background still shapes how he builds medical products.
Sana Health belongs to its founders. James served as CTO, including through the HAX hardware accelerator in Shenzhen.
What he owned
- Schematics and PCBsCircuit board design and layouts for the wearable hardware.
- Electronics prototypesHands-on builds of boards and device electronics to get something real in the lab.
- FirmwareEmbedded software that runs on the device itself.
- BluetoothLow-energy wireless links between the wearable and the phone.
- Mobile appsiOS and Android experiences that pair with the device and the clinical workflow.
Have a clinical idea?
Bring the domain expertise. James brings the product engineering and the standard it needs to hold up.