Doctor building clinical software.

Two years on NHS wards, now shipping clinical AI at a seed-stage startup while completing a management master's at LSE.

Dr Cyrilkumaar Vijayakumar
Dr Cyrilkumaar VijayakumarLondon
Anthropic × LSE Hackathon, 2026
1st
NHS foundation training
2 yrs
Publications and conference papers
5
Fluent in four languages
4
Selected work

Three disciplines, one perspective

Timeline

Experience

Aug 2026 → presentNow

Clinical AI Fellow

Synthax AI
  • Designed and shipped a live voice-driven client onboarding platform, built end to end with Claude Code.
  • Proposed the trust-and-safety architecture for the company's agentic system.
  • Report to the CEO in a four-person team, part-time alongside LSE.
Mar → May 2026

Project Lead

London Strategic Consulting
  • Led a go-to-market engagement for a US AI startup entering new sectors.
  • Delivered a 40-page interim report and a sector-comparison matrix scoring attractiveness for AI entry.
Oct → Dec 2025

Project Manager

Castore Consulting
  • Led a team of nine on an eight-week engagement for a fast-growing B-Corp personal-care brand.
  • Mapped the supply chain end to end and recommended a modular systems architecture over full ERP.
Sep → Nov 2024

Healthtech & Innovation Fellow

Bitelabs
  • Selected for a competitive eight-week fellowship to design and pitch solutions to current healthcare needs.
  • Produced two Figma prototypes, including Cognify ADHD, and two pitch decks presented to venture capitalists.
Aug 2024 → Aug 2025

Resident Doctor, FY2

Scunthorpe General Hospital, NLaG NHS Foundation Trust
  • Audited 51 consecutive hernia repairs against the 80% day-case standard; presented at the NLaG Surgical Audit Meeting.
  • Led a vitamin D testing quality-improvement audit that raised testing from 28.6% to 59.3% (p = 0.022).
  • Teaching Coordinator: organised 15 seminars for c. 150 FY2 doctors across Yorkshire.
Aug 2023 → Aug 2024

Resident Doctor, FY1

Hull Royal Infirmary, Hull University Teaching Hospitals
  • First author on a two-cycle audit of 90 perioperative diabetic patients with CGM introduced between cycles; poster at the Vascular Society AGM 2024.
  • Delivered ward-based teaching for final-year medical students.
Credentials

Education and skills

2025 → 2027
London School of Economics
Global Master's in Management (GMiM)
Predicted Distinction · Student Ambassador
2018 → 2023
University of Sheffield
MBChB, Medicine and Surgery
IB Merit Scholarship · Second author, radiology meta-analysis
2016 → 2018
Dulwich College Suzhou
International Baccalaureate, 43/45
Head Prefect
Technical
  • TypeScript
  • Python
  • Claude API and Claude Code
  • ElevenLabs Conversational AI
  • Figma
  • SQL (basics)
Languages
  • English (native)
  • Mandarin
  • Tamil
  • Spanish (intermediate)
Finance
  • Accounting (CFI)
  • AmplifyME Sales and Trading
Contact

Building clinical software? Let's talk.

Based in London. Open to clinical product, health-tech and strategy roles.