Nik Haldimann
@nikhaldi
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Tech and other nonsense. Making clinical trials more effective @LindusHealth. He/him 🇨🇭🇺🇲🇬🇧🏳️🌈
London
Joined November 2012
This may interest you even if you don't care about Django! The core is me combining some my favorite topics to think about: the history computing, plus the hard problems of extensibility and collaboration in software
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So I'm still alive. Proof: This talk I gave last week at @DjangoConEurope
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Ok jury is still out on shitty leader, but he’s publicly demonstrating he barely knows what he’s doing. I give Twitter a 20% chance of pulling through as a business within 2 years. That’d be despite leadership - this is common and why the memes of shitty leadership persist!
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- Crypto - Advertising - Shitty “hardcore” leadership This has freed up so much brainpower that maybe now we can reallocate to building some real shit?
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Tbh the past weeks have been restorative for me because 3 gods of tech that I always kinda knew to be false have been knocked off their pedestals:
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If you asked my two years ago: I would have told you live coding interviews are fine (*I* don’t mind them). I since got to know women developers who get stressed, freeze up and get rejected on live coding interviews & whiteboards. The crazy thing is they’re all solid engineers.
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Feels rather unreal still, we really went and raised $5m. How did that happen?! It's the amazing team, the early customers who trusted us when we hadn't proven anything yet and this strong cast of investors. And now just to fix clinical trials. Easy! 😆
Thrilled to publicly launch today and announce our $5 million seed round! Our mission is to accelerate research for the next generation of health companies. Thank you @firstminutecap, Presight Capital, @seedcamp, Hambro Perks, @AminoCollective, and @calmstormvc for your support!
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Favor boring technology, and I mean boring in the most affectionate way possible ❤️
Boring CTO opinion: almost everything you built in years 0-3 should've been built on Rails + Heroku. Optimize your engineering decisions for iteration speed, observability, and simplicity until you achieve Product-Market Fit — and probably longer.
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I've been living in Central London for a few months now and have gotten used to all sorts of unusual noise and commotion out my window (ask me about the Euros final sometime) but this is a new one: a Hare Krishna duo of drum and accordion! 🥁🪗
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Job details here: https://t.co/a9L5sAz6ir - DMs are open for any and all questions. Care for a retweet?
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3. The product dev environment of your dreams: I want to make product-oriented engineers as happy and productive as possible - strong product vision but lots of autonomy on how to get there, and the infrastructure to ship rapidly
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What I learned in the 9 years since at early & mid stage startups matters much more: ruthless product focus, simple architecture, rapid iteration. Which leads me to:
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Let me qualify that: Everybody latches on to that credential but 5 years at Google taught me how to design services for 100K requests/sec and navigate giant teams and codebases - useless skills for startup survival! 💀
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2. The people: The founders are an ex-Special Adviser for Life Sciences to @10downingstreet (@Michael_JRYoung), an ex-VC (@meribeckwith) - incredibly handy not only during fundraising - and an ex-Googler (me)
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1. Our mission: To make it easier to conduct health research, revolutionise clinical trials and improve health outcomes for all. Ambitious much? Yes, and so much more motivating than another boring B2B/fintech/adtech/DTC startup
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So yeah, I'm hiring software engineers in the UK at @LindusHealth in historically the most difficult market to do so. 😆 I'm still optimistic for 3 reasons:
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Is anyone re-thinking co-working spaces for this new era of non-stop Zoom calls? Like some sort of space that is enclosed in some sort of sound proof structure, maybe with a door? We could call it an "office".
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