I am a general surgeon with 15 years of clinical experience in the United States and New Zealand currently practicing on the West Coast of the South Island. Over the past two years I have learned to build and ship AI tools that solve problems I encounter directly in clinical practice. My work centers on designing clinical AI systems end-to-end, from architecture and model selection through deployment, testing, and regulatory validation, with a particular focus on auditability and real-world usability rather than benchmark performance alone. My goal is to keep building clinically grounded, technically rigorous AI, informed equally by frontline surgical practice and hands-on engineering.