Board rev. 2026 · London

Omkar Vedpathak

I care deeply about what gets built and why. I bring technical rigour, empathy and product thinking to engineering teams in mission-driven organisations.

Electronics → software → health, and curious about AI safety. Scroll to power the board.

Carallon · 2012

Electronics project engineer

London

  • Designed electronic circuits for high-end lighting displays, such as synchronised concert and theatre lighting.
Jaguar Land Rover · 2012–2014

Product development engineer

Electrical, electronic and software engineering

  • Defined integration requirements for, and tested, driver assistance systems: automated high beam, traffic sign recognition and autonomous braking.
Amazon · 2014–2017

Web development engineer

London, then Seattle after moving to the US in 2016

  • Built reporting automation for worldwide marketing-content teams, saving over $400K a year in North America alone.
  • Launched marketing websites that handled tens of millions of daily page hits for global launches, including the Australia and Brazil marketplaces, Fire TV India and Echo Look.
Amazon Care · 2017–2022

Building virtual-first healthcare

Seattle · engineer, senior engineer, then manager

  • Amazon Care served over 100,000 people for multiple US employers. I designed and built the clinician-facing apps for documentation and virtual consultations, launched v1, and integrated an external electronic health record system.
  • Led early development of an ambient scribe that transcribes and summarises doctor–patient conversations, to help cut call documentation time by around 20%.
  • Promoted to senior engineer in 2021 and moved into management in 2022 with 7 reports. Conducted 100+ interviews and mentored 20+ new hires.
Amazon Health · 2022–2023

Launching health.amazon.com

Seattle · software development manager

  • Led an engineering team that launched health.amazon.com, a secure environment for health data kept separate from Amazon’s pharmacy and clinic sites, working closely with compliance and security on HIPAA.
  • Delivered the One Medical Prime offer and Health Condition Programs, on systems with strict reliability and response-time targets.
Foster School of Business · 2024

MBA, then Zinc

Seattle, then London

  • Finished an MBA at the University of Washington (3.74 GPA), then moved home to London.
  • Spent a few months as technical entrepreneur in residence at Zinc, a health and climate accelerator, working on early product concepts with potential co-founders.
HeliosX · 2024–2026

Software engineering manager

Weight loss engineering

  • Led 10 engineers across two squads building the systems for prescription medication purchase and fulfilment.
  • Launched 10+ weight-loss products across US and UK brands with Product, UX, Medical and Legal.
  • Rebuilt on-call and support processes using LLM-based triage.
Our Future Health · 2026–now

Software engineering manager

Researcher pillar

  • Lead 5 engineers building the platform where researchers apply for data access and analyse it securely in hosted Jupyter notebooks.
Open circuit · what interests me

AI safety

Reading, studying and thinking about it

  • It’s the kind of problem I keep coming back to. I’ve completed the BlueDot Impact AGI Strategy and Technical AI Safety courses.
Writing

Playing Pong using Reinforcement Learning (2019, Towards Data Science). A gentle introduction to policy gradients: I trained an agent to beat the Atari Pong CPU and shared the code on GitHub.