Future HealthTech Innovator  ·  CAPM® Certified

Safiya Khan

Coding & Development Enthusiast — Bridging Technology, Healthcare & Project Leadership to drive better outcomes.

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Software Engineering Healthcare Technology Artificial Intelligence Project Leadership Blockchain CAPM® Certified Lean Six Sigma Open Source Software Engineering Healthcare Technology Artificial Intelligence Project Leadership Blockchain CAPM® Certified Lean Six Sigma Open Source

Bridging code & care

I'm a second-year Computer Science student with a deep curiosity for how technology can transform healthcare. My work sits at the crossroads of software engineering, AI research, and health innovation.

When I'm not coding, you'll find me reading about the latest breakthroughs in medical AI, contributing to open-source projects, or writing about the future of health-tech.

25+
Certifications earned
4+
Projects completed
1st
Prize — HandTalk
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Software Engineering

Building elegant solutions with clean, maintainable code. Passionate about full-stack development and open source.

Healthcare

Leveraging technology to improve patient outcomes and make healthcare more accessible and equitable.

Artificial Intelligence

Exploring machine learning, NLP, and computer vision to solve real-world problems at scale.

Selected work

01

Hardware  ·  Accessibility

HandTalk

An Arduino robot using flex sensors to capture hand motion and convert gestures or English input into any language — making communication more accessible across language barriers.

Arduino Flex Sensors Motion Detection NLP
🏆 1st Prize Winner
02

Healthcare  ·  Blockchain  ·  Research

Blockchain for Secure Patient Records

An independent research proposal designing a hybrid blockchain architecture for secure, privacy-preserving telemedicine data. Integrates AES-256 encryption, smart contracts, and privacy-enhancing techniques (ABE, ZKP).

Blockchain AES-256 Smart Contracts ZKP
03

Full-Stack  ·  Web

Chess Game

A fully functional browser-based chess application built from scratch with vanilla JavaScript. Features complete chess rules, smooth hover animations, visual turn indicators, and a minimalist premium board aesthetic.

JavaScript HTML CSS
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04

Python  ·  CLI

Task Manager CLI

A command-line task manager built in Python with colour-coded priorities, task filtering by status and priority, input validation, and a clean terminal UX using Colorama.

Python Colorama CLI
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Thoughts & writing

02

Project Management

What Earning My CAPM® Taught Me About Leading Tech Projects

Project management isn't just Gantt charts and status meetings. Here's what the CAPM® certification actually changed about how I think about building things.

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03

Blockchain · Privacy

Why Patient Data Deserves Better Than a Password

After researching blockchain architectures for telemedicine, I became convinced that our current approach to health data privacy is fundamentally broken.

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04

Health Equity · HealthTech

The Algorithm Doesn't See You

HealthTech promises to democratise care. But when the systems we build are trained on the few and deployed on the many, innovation doesn't close the gap — it widens it.

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05

Project Management · HealthTech

We Keep Building the Right Things Wrong

HealthTech's crisis isn't a shortage of good ideas. It's a shortage of structured delivery. And after earning my CAPM, I can't stop seeing exactly where the cracks are.

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06

AI · Healthcare Equity · Global Health

Can Algorithms Save Lives Where Doctors Are Scarce?

AI triage in low-resource settings is one of the most promising ideas in global health — and one of the most dangerous if we get it wrong. The technology is improving. The data it learns from is not.

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07

Book Review · HealthTech · AI

Three Books Every HealthTech Thinker Should Read

A vision, a reality check, and a warning. Topol, Wachter, and O'Neil — read in this order and you'll understand both the enormous promise of digital health and exactly why it keeps failing to deliver.

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Selected certifications

Project Management Institute

Active · Expires Aug 2028

Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM®)

Issued Aug 2025 · ID: 4175310

Project Management Agile PMI

Anexas Europe

Black Belt

Certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt

Issued Sep 2025 · ID: 4068-175-926-2669

DMAIC TQM FMEA

McKinsey & Company

Dec 2024

McKinsey Forward Program

Issued Dec 2024

Leadership Critical Thinking Strategy

Stanford University

Healthcare AI

Fundamentals of Machine Learning for Healthcare

Stanford University

Machine Learning Healthcare IT Clinical AI

Microsoft

Dec 2025

Introduction to End-to-End Analytics using Microsoft Fabric

Issued Dec 2025

Data Analytics Microsoft Fabric BI

+ Many More

Further Credentials

BCG Gen AI · Deloitte Data Analytics · AIG Cybersecurity · Google AI · Erasmus Cybersecurity in Healthcare · Johns Hopkins Genomics · and more

AI Cybersecurity Bioinformatics Data

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connect.

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