About

Aneesh Sampath is a versatile and mission-driven software engineer with 6 years of experience in both hardware and software engineering. He is currently working as a software engineer at Forward, where he is rebuilding a primary healthcare system from first principles. Aneesh is the tech lead primarily building an in-house EMR (Electronic Medical Record) system, including a collaborative storage system for medical information and a workflow orchestration system to manage a telemedicine workforce and optimize the efficiency of delivering care 24/7. He has also built a prototype for computing polygenic risk scores based on a patient's genotype data based on recent research and assisted the hardware team to build software for medical devices. Specifically, he helped build a 3D body model software using depth cameras to enable body measurement computation using computer vision. Previously, Aneesh spent 2.5 years at Tesla working on autonomous vehicle hardware, specifically camera systems. He has had exposure to a wide range of industries spanning healthcare, autonomous vehicles, aerospace, and wireless, along with technical experience across the stack. Aneesh's primary motivator is leveraging technology to solve meaningful problems and build valuable applications for society. Aneesh's educational background includes a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Rice University and further studies in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Stanford University Center for Professional Development. Aneesh's tech stack includes software engineering, Python, Golang, computer vision, research scientist, senior software engineer, test, and backend. With 1.26 years of relevant experience, Aneesh is a skilled and motivated software engineer who is passionate about leveraging technology to solve meaningful problems.