PRODUCT · DIGITAL HEALTH · FOUNDER

I learn hard domains from the inside, then build products that last.

The work I'm drawn to is high-stakes and messy with information, where being wrong has a human cost.

Founded Caringly, a clinical care-transition platform active in daily hospital production for six-plus years. Founded Perci, a workforce-resilience platform built across software and hardware. Starting from zero meant owning all of it: product, sales and marketing, account management, hiring and building teams, working with patent counsel, and shipping every release. I trained as a physician and molecular biologist, and that discipline is what I bring to it.

FOUNDER
20+
YEARS
IN PRODUCT
HIPAA
SOC 2 · HITRUST
6+ yrs
CLINICAL PRODUCTION
STILL LIVE
MBBS·PhD
PHYSICIAN-SCIENTIST
FOUNDATION
10+
YEARS
MEDICAL EDUCATION
02 / WORK

The same problem, approached twice: the hospital handoff where most serious errors begin, and the workplace caught unready for disaster.

Perci
FOUNDER · 2022–2026

Workforce resilience for organizations that can't afford to go dark. A mobile readiness app, an award-winning hardware kit, and an enterprise Resilience Intelligence Dashboard. I led the 2025 pivot from consumer to B2B after market discovery and prioritized a roadmap, under real constraints, toward critical-infrastructure partners.

DISASTER RESILIENCE HARDWARE + SOFTWARE B2B PIVOT
Caringly
FOUNDER · 2017–2025

The handoff of patient-care responsibility between hospital providers is where coordination breaks and harm accumulates. I led the team that built and ran the platform, and drove the product itself, interviewing charge nurses, hospitalists, and intensivists across the country to get the workflow right. It has run in continuous clinical production at a safety-net hospital for six-plus years, and runs there today, used daily across the care team.

6+ yrs
IN PRODUCTION
Cerner
HL7 INTEGRATION
HIPAA
SOC 2 · HITRUST
DIGITAL HEALTH INTEROPERABILITY PATIENT SAFETY
Co-Radio
MIT COVID-19 CHALLENGE · 2020

A community-radio concept for the “Africa Takes on COVID-19” track, keeping communities connected and informed when conventional channels fail. Built and pitched with a six-person international team.

Watch the pitch ↗
mPulse Mobile
DIGITAL HEALTH · 2014–2017

Evidence-based mHealth messaging delivered at scale for payers and providers: screening, prenatal and well-child, vaccination and adherence, built to health-literacy standards.

03 / BUILDING NOW
A standing experiment.

Small things I design and build with AI, shipped end to end.

arjun ka nishan
Arjuna
↗ LIVE

A browser game about single-pointed focus, built on the Arjuna legend. Strike where the eye will be, not where it is.

BUILT WITH CLAUDE CODE GITHUB VERCEL
in progress
AI Productivity Agent
SOON

An AI agent for everyday productivity, currently in build. The link will land here when it's ready to share.

BUILT WITH N8N CLAUDE
vivekkaliraman.com
you are here
This Website
↗ LIVE

Designed and built with AI, then shipped. The site is itself a small proof of the workflow.

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04 / JOURNEY

Two decades in reverse: founder, then digital-health product, then the medical-education and science foundation underneath it all.

2017–PRESENT
Founder
Across two companies, the whole job: product development, sales and marketing, operations, and shipping each release.
Perci · Founder & CEO
2022–2026

A B2B workforce-resilience platform spanning a mobile app, an award-winning hardware kit, and an enterprise readiness dashboard. Led the 2025 pivot from consumer to B2B after market discovery and landed early partnerships in critical infrastructure.

Mayo Clinic, Center for Digital Health · Senior Director, Strategy (Contract)
2021–2022

Advised the Center on emerging-products strategy, evaluating and shaping new digital health product opportunities for the enterprise.

Caringly · Co-Founder & CEO
2017–2025

A clinical care-transition platform for the handoff of patient-care responsibility between hospital providers. Six-plus years in continuous production at MLK Jr. Community Hospital, integrated with Cerner over HL7, SOC 2 Type 1. Built the product practice from scratch with a team up to twelve.

0-TO-1 INTEROPERABILITY · HL7 DISASTER RESILIENCE HARDWARE
2011–2017
Digital Health
Product
The turn to software: technical product management for payer and provider platforms at scale.
mPulse Mobile · TPM → Director, Content Strategy → Solutions Director
2014–2017

Built messaging-based product solutions for payers and providers; drove product development of evidence-based mHealth messaging libraries delivered at scale and aligned to payer quality priorities; partnered with sales to turn capability into use cases and demos.

mobileStorm · Technical Product Manager
2014

Owned messaging product features; authored PRDs, personas, and requirements; drove Agile/Scrum delivery, A/B testing, and the roadmap with an offshore engineering team.

Independent Consultant · Digital & Mobile Health
2011–2014

Built the “Get Healthy” mobile-app prototype (UCLA Anderson / Johnson & Johnson).

DIGITAL HEALTH PAYER · PROVIDER mHEALTH AT SCALE AGILE / SCRUM
2001–2014
Medical Education
& Science
The foundation decade: domain depth, scientific rigor, and directing teams that built clinical content.
VP / Medical Director · Scientific Director
IMPACT · CENTRON · EMBRYON · HEALTH SCIENCES COMMUNICATIONS

Directed digital and traditional medical-education product across oncology, neurology / multiple sclerosis, and inflammation. Drove content product development and directed scientific-director teams for more than a decade, including digital physician-education strategy for a neurology therapeutic (WebMD / Medscape).

Product Manager · Cognia Corporation

Managed development and launch of a bioinformatics database product (Cognia Molecular) and directed a team of curators: my first ground-up product.

MEDICAL EDUCATION ONCOLOGY · NEUROLOGY BIOINFORMATICS TEAM BUILDING
05 / WRITING & RESEARCH
2025
Quantifying acute care nurses' experiences of patient handoffs during shift change: a cross-sectional study
First author · BMC Nursing 25:89 · open access
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MOLECULAR BIOLOGY & GENOME STABILITY · BRILL LAB, RUTGERS (PhD)
2002
Role of SGS1 and SLX4 in maintaining rDNA structure in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
First author · Current Genetics 41:389–400
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2001
Functional overlap between Sgs1–Top3 and the Mms4–Mus81 endonuclease
First author · Genes & Development 15(20):2730
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2001
Mapping the DNA topoisomerase III binding domain of the Sgs1 DNA helicase
Co-author · Journal of Biological Chemistry 276(12):8848
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2001
Requirement for three novel protein complexes in the absence of the Sgs1 DNA helicase in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Co-author · Genetics 157(1):103
Read ↗
2000
Bipartite structure of the SGS1 DNA helicase in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Co-author · Genetics 154(3):1101
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06 / ABOUT

I learn the domain first. Then I build the thing that lasts in it.

I trained as a physician and molecular biologist. I practiced for a year as a junior resident in anesthesiology and pediatrics, then moved into molecular biology research and a decade of medical-education product: the discipline of getting complex clinical science exactly right, for audiences who'd catch you if you didn't. That's where I learned to run teams and ship work people relied on.

When healthcare moved to software, I moved with it: technical product management at mPulse and mobileStorm, then founding two companies. At Caringly I built a care-transition platform that has run in clinical production for six-plus years and still runs today. At Perci I'm building workforce resilience across software and hardware. Different fields, same pattern: learn it from the inside, then make something durable.

I don't practice medicine. What I carry from it is a way of working: precise, calm under pressure, accountable for outcomes where being wrong has consequences.

EDUCATION & CREDENTIALS
PhD, Molecular Biology & Biochemistry, Rutgers University
MS, Health Care Informatics, University of San Diego
MBBS, Medicine, Government Medical College, Rohtak · M.Biotech, AIIMS
Health Informatics on FHIR · UX Design (General Assembly)
07 / CONTACT

Building something where getting it right matters? Let's talk.

LINKEDIN
/in/vivekkaliraman ↗
BASED IN
Los Angeles, CA