Aamer Jalan

Building AI-native software for behavioral healthcare at CoralEHR, and BonfireDB, a clinical backend agents can be trusted with.

CS, Entrepreneurship + Math at Ashoka. I like building things, shipping fast and breaking prod.

Work

Startups, research, and engineering.

CoralEHR

CTO & Co-Founder

Sep 2025 - Present

AI-native EHR for private pay and out-of-network behavioral health clinicians. In production, with compliance enforced in code instead of in policy documents.

  • Built the AI documentation agent on Claude, review-first, with clinical safety guardrails
  • Turned HIPAA and 42 CFR Part 2 into enforced code paths: ABAC over FHIR R4, hash-chained audit
  • Shipped the billing engine: Stripe autopay with exactly-once charges, 837P claims, ICD-10 validation
AWSFHIR R4HIPAAAI AgentsClaudeServerless

BonfireDB

Founder

Jun 2026 - Present

Open-source clinical backend for AI health apps. Canonical FHIR R4, cited search, and governed agent proposals, so an agent reads scoped evidence instead of a raw-FHIR dump.

  • Put governance in the database: row-level security that fails closed from the first row
  • Propose, approve, commit, so an agent can draft a clinical write but never approve its own
  • Passes 133/133 HL7 SQL-on-FHIR v2 conformance tests
PostgreSQLpgvectorFHIR R4MCPTypeScriptOpen Source

ArcOne

Software Engineer

Feb 2026 - Jul 2026

Sole owner of the classification and policy engine inside Ocular, an enterprise data governance catalog. No other engineer worked in the layer.

  • Built a three-layer hybrid PII detector on Presidio, GLiNER, and transformer NER
  • Shipped the policy platform so governance teams control scans instead of filing tickets
  • Wired the first end-to-end path: Dremio to Gitea to Dgraph, over FastAPI and Airflow
PythonNERDgraphAirflowData Governance

MCP Tool-Surface Evaluation

Independent approver, study led by Aanish Sachdev

Jun 2026 - Jul 2026

A pre-registered study on whether MCP tool surfaces actually make LLM agents better, with the null result committed in advance. Aanish designed and ran it; I was one of two named approvers on the pre-answer anchors.

  • The protocol bars the experiment host from approving its own anchor, so each sealed commitment went through outside review before any model call
  • Question-only context selection beat query-blind projection by 9.5 points, on 43% less payload
  • Replicated on an untouched 374-question holdout: +34.1 points on the microbiology stratum
LLM EvalsMCPPythonStatistics

TicVision

Co-Founder

May 2025 - Present

Data-driven symptom tracking platform for Tourette's patients. Won 1st place at IIM Ahmedabad Tech for Social Good Hackathon.

  • Pitched to 3-judge panel against 50+ teams nationwide
  • Identified $5.6B addressable market opportunity
  • Built prototype enabling real-time symptom tracking
HealthcareSocial ImpactReactData Analytics

Portfolio Optimization Framework

Undergraduate Capstone

Sep 2025 - Dec 2025

ML-driven portfolio optimization improving risk-adjusted returns during high-volatility regimes. Supervised by Prof. Sandeep Juneja (PhD Stanford).

  • Improved Sharpe ratio by 9%, Sortino ratio by 24%
  • Trained diffusion models on 13+ years of NSE data
  • Validated through 157 out-of-sample folds
Deep LearningQuantitative FinanceDiffusion ModelsReport

Time Rewards

Machine Learning Engineer

Aug 2025 - Sep 2025

End-to-end ML pipeline for billable hours forecasting serving consulting, legal, and nonprofit organizations.

  • Built AWS serverless solution processing 100,000+ records
  • Achieved MAPE <12% across 3 demo clients
  • Evaluated 8 time series models for production deployment
MLOpsTime SeriesAWS GluePySparkLLM

Nuvama

Software Engineering Intern

May 2025 - Aug 2025

Real-time event alerting system using SignalR for wealth management platform at Edelweiss Group.

  • Served 1,000+ users across 12 modules
  • Designed schemas for 25+ event types
  • Captured 500,000+ events daily with 99.95% reliability
SignalRReal-Time SystemsEvent-Driven.NET

ENT-2022 · Life Design Lab · Spring 2026

Journal

A running record from February and March at Ashoka. Kept close to the moment instead of cleaned up into hindsight.

em-dash got merged this morning.

I am happy about it, mostly because the work was solid and useful, not because it makes for a neat story. And there is definitely no neat story right now. Classes still feel under-attended in my brain. Coral is still loud. Graduation is two months away and somehow also not abstract anymore.

Maybe that is the real texture of this semester: a bunch of things becoming real at the same time, without waiting for me to feel ready.

Get in touch

Interested in health tech, compliance workflows, machine learning, and startups.