christophmccann

snap40 | Edinburgh/London/New York On-Site | Remote | Full-Time | www.snap40.com

Hey, I'm the CEO & Co-Founder of snap40. We just raised an $8 million seed round (https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/26/snap40/) to protect every human life. We monitor the entire human body and then use AI to identify those who require intervention, in advance and before they become sick.

We're looking for data scientists, software engineers, electronic engineers, designers and product managers. We're remote friendly, with offices in Edinburgh/London/New York.

While we are looking for a range of core skills in each role, what we care much more about is your ability to learn at pace, your attention to quality and your mindset towards solving super hard problems.

Please feel free to email me direct at [email protected]

The regulatory burden is not so high that it can be attributed to the cost of most USS machines - thats just a mirage created by the large corporates who want to defend their place in the market. This isn't just seen in medical ultrasound, but across healthcare.

The regulatory and evidence burden is hard - but its not insurmountable and it certainly shouldn't stop change.

snap40 | Edinburgh, UK | Software Engineer | http://www.snap40.com/blog/2016/7/22/we-are-looking-for-an-o...

snap40 provides continuous automated risk analysis so health services can identify general hospital ward patients at high risk of deterioration.

We are looking for an outstanding software engineer to join our small 3-person engineering team (overall company size 5). We want someone to do the best work of their career, building our product and company with us from the ground up. We can pay a competitive salary and early stage stock options.

We build out micro-services in Java and deploy on Docker. Our front-end is built in Angular and Ionic. We also make heavy use of C# and H2O for machine learning in our calculation of vital signs and detection of patient deterioration.

CTO | snap40 | Edinburgh, UK | On-Site

What we do: snap40 help health services to safely keep patients in their own home using automated risk analysis and continuous wearable vital signs monitoring.

Who we are: We are a team of 5 based in Edinburgh (http://snap40.com/team) - we are all passionately committed to positively changing healthcare.

What are we looking for: We are looking for a CTO - an outstanding and hands-on software engineer with the ability to lead development of our infrastructure as we grow. More details here: http://www.snap40.com/blog/2016/4/22/we-are-looking-for-a-ct.... Particular tech we use in our stack - Java, HBase, Postgres, Docker, Kafka, H20, Angular. A solid knowledge of machine learning and stats would be a big bonus.

What are we offering: Early stage stock options, a good salary, the chance to do the best work of your career and make the lives of patients better, MacBook Pro etc. We're a fun, friendly and caring team - we want to come into work.

Our Process: CV, an initial 1-to-1 chat with the CEO then a whole team meet and interview.

Please e-mail me direct at [email protected].

Second this.

I'm a single founder of a medical devices startup looking for a co-founder. It is very hard as a single founder to keep all the plates spinning, not impossible, just hard. There is enough risk in what we are doing, so finding a co-founder is, in my opinion, a sensible way to reduce risk.

However, for me, its also the ability to talk things through, bounce things off each other and, in the tough times, keep each other going. I'm sure others will agree that it can be incredibly lonely and isolating at times running a startup. From personal experience, there are some pretty low moments and times when you have no idea what the right path to take is. Having another person there, who is equally committed to building an amazing company, is a major plus and thats why I'm putting a lot of time into doing that right now.

The flip side though is having the wrong co-founder. Again, I have experienced this and its debilitating and led to the end of friendships.

PS: As mentioned, looking for a co-founder with skills in machine learning, AI and bio-informatics ;) Contact details on profile.

In Scotland, there is a big movement to preserve the teaching of Gaelic. Whilst I think it is important to preserve culture and to preserve history, I don't think, in terms of youth education, that should outweigh the utility of skills and languages necessary for the modern world.

It seems slightly obtuse to me that whilst do not teach computer science, programming, engineering or science particularly well in schools, we should worry about the preservation of teaching of old languages. That being said, I think it is extremely important to teach kids (and the public in general) about history as a way of avoiding past mistakes so I don't think we should eliminate it - I just think there are more important things we need to fix first.

Trust me, it's not fun. Its a land of denial, self-deception and complete frustration!

Also want to say - I have studied medicine. There were people on my course who held these beliefs and fully believed what they were now being taught was rubbish, but learnt it to "pass exams". They had done so since school. No amount of education would or could change their viewpoint, which, for me, is the most frightening thing.

It is almost impossible to argue with the individuals who espouse these beliefs as they expect you to prove a negative i.e. prove a higher power doesn't exist. As the article describes, the argument also quickly devolves into extreme defensiveness.

What makes this so bogus is the enormous weight of peer-reviewed primary research and scientific evidence of evolutionary basis for life.

Thankfully, in the UK, a much smaller minority hold these views. I heard a Mitt Romney speech in London once and he was asked about his view on creationism vs evolution - he couldn't answer, but if we were to support evolution he just lost any chances of future election. If a UK prime minister espoused creationism, the reverse would be true.

I think that a large proportion of CS students are self-taught anyway. I self-taught myself most of my coding skills, despite being a CS student. It taught me the fundamentals, I then built on that myself.