Thilakshan Kanesalingam (TK)
Engineer · Entrepreneur · Operator
I spend my time bringing ideas to life.
That usually looks like:
0 → 1
1 → many
A deep understanding of the user, then the problem
A great product (/service), then how to market it
The team, partnerships and operating systems that carry it to more and more users
I’ve brought 10+ ideas to life across 4 areas of healthcare:
DTC, applied AI, B2B software, and devices.
What I’ve made
Direct-to-consumer telehealth
Telehealth in all 50 states
Co-founderEverOne Health
This company offered medical weight loss online to any qualifying adult in the US: a same-day video visit with a doctor licensed in their state, medicine shipped every month if prescribed, and care coaches along the way. I led it across product, growth, and operations (clinical, pharmacy, regulatory), and owned the unit economics.
- 0 → 1
- Formed the key partnerships and the HIPAA-compliant infrastructure, and built the systems for customer acquisition and retention.
- 1 → many
- Live in all 50 states from day one. Bootstrapped from zero to 2,000+ patients in the first 6 months.
AI harnesses for clinics
Applied AI for longevity and functional-medicine clinics
FounderSystems Driven Health
Longevity and functional-medicine clinics usually run on an EHR and a set of tools that are slow to adopt AI. Instead of replacing them, we build an AI harness around them. I worked directly with single and multi-site clinics to find the business processes worth automating and turn them into systems: how a clinic builds its brand and runs all of its marketing, and HIPAA-compliant operational workflows with AI.
- 1 → many
- Then two HIPAA-compliant operating systems for a clinic: an AI harness for all of its marketing, from the first click to enrollment, that reviews its own results every day and week for a person to approve, and a second that takes over once someone becomes a patient and runs their care journey around the EHR.
Hospital software
AI that makes sure follow-up scans really happen
Co-founder & CEOInflo Health
Imaging scans often turn up something nobody was looking for, an incidental finding, that needs a follow-up scan. 61% of those follow-ups are missed in practice. This product reads every radiology report, catches them, and makes sure the follow-up actually happens.
- 0 → 1
- First product live in 6 months, 2 pilots, then the first 4 contracts from cold outreach ($212K ARR) at hospitals and imaging centers.
- 1 → many
- One hospital using it later raised lung follow-ups done from 39% to 68%.
Medical & Life Science Devices
Medical and life-science machines for cancer research and treatment
Founding engineer → CTO → COOXstrahl
We made a family of products built on low-energy X-rays, for life-science research and for medical devices. As sole engineer for the first two years, I took a Johns Hopkins robotics prototype to a CE-marked product built in volume: about 100 units at a $1M list price, the market leader in its category, now cited in 2,000+ peer-reviewed papers. 5 more products followed, including an FDA-cleared machine that treats skin cancer without surgery.
- 0 → 1
- Owned the software, calibration and systems integration, and directed our contract manufacturer’s electrical and mechanical engineers, to move from prototype to commercial product.
- 1 → many
- As CTO, built research partnerships and technology transfers with Johns Hopkins, Oxford, Harvard, UPenn and more. We then led the business through a private-equity acquisition, and as COO I led our team of 65 people in 3 offices, serving 700+ medical and research facilities in 25+ countries.