Tamir Shklaz
3x startup founder (ex YC) and CTO with 8+ years of experience and a proven track record of building products from 0-1 that scale to millions of users.
About
Currently CTO at HealthLeap, where we build AI that integrates with hospital systems to prioritize patients, surface relevant clinical data, and streamline the care journey. Patients get care faster and go home sooner.
We're hiring. If you want to work on meaningful problems in healthcare, join the team.
Work
2026 - Now
CTO | HealthLeap
AI platform that integrates with hospital systems to help patients get care faster.- Leading engineering team building AI that prioritizes patients, surfaces relevant clinical data, and streamlines the care journey.
2025 - 2026
Founding Engineer | Wordware
Workflow automation tool where you build workflows in plain English.- Led engineering team of 8 engineers.
- Drove our integrations project for triggers and actions, connecting to 2k+ sources like Slack, Gmail, Outlook, and Notion.
- Spearheaded Sauna OS, an AI platform for knowledge work. You collaborate with an AI agent that builds deep context about you and takes action in the real world.
2024 - 2025
Founder | Serene Technologies
Engineering and consulting agency helping startups go 0-1- Led technical infrastructure for a large North American medical association, building a membership system, directory, and blog.
- Built an AI recruitment agent and various other projects for startups, from landing pages to apps.
2020 - 2023
Founder & CTO | Strive Math (YC S21)
Online coding school teaching kids math through code.- Built a browser-based IDE specialised for coding education with real-time collaboration.
- Led hiring strategy and engine, scaling the team to ~20 employees and 50+ contractors.
- Led a team of 4 engineers to build our back-office infrastructure for payments, scheduling, communication and payroll.
2020 - 2021
Founder & CEO/CTO | Insupply
Marketplace for trusted buyers and supplies of PPE equipment during COVID-19 pandemic.- Created Coronapp, an information repository web app regarding COVID-19 in South Africa. Had 1M+ daily users
- Set up a two-sided marketplace in < 1 month, listed 50M+ items of PPE, and received requests for more than 100M items of PPE ($1Bn in value) in < 6 months.
2018 - 2020
Founder & CEO/CTO | Quillo
Online marketplace for 2nd hand university textbooks.- Created a nation wide delivery and escrow system transacting >5000 books
- Built native apps for iOS and Android
- Led marketing & growth, >32,000 students across 24 universities
