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David Hankey, Ph.D. · the bio-scientist building digital-health software — wearable sensors, clinical-trial data, the regulated stack
David Hankey, Ph.D. is a bio-scientist and digital-health software founder in San Diego, working at the intersection of wearable sensors, clinical-trial data, and the regulated software that holds it together.
Who he is
Founder-to-founder, not vendor-to-prospect
David founds in the hardest regulated corner — digital health, wearable sensors, clinical-trial data, where the science and the FDA pathway both have to line up. PJ runs SideGuy from North County on an adjacent conviction: the tech to automate the operator layer already exists; what's missing is a human who makes it usable. For a digital-health founder, that's the custom software + data tooling around the science.
What a SideGuy does for David
Where an operator-builder can actually help
- Clinical-data & regulated-software layer — Custom tooling around clinical-trial / sensor data — capture, wrangling, audit trails — built to your protocol, not a rented dashboard.
- AI that earns its place — Targeted automation for the manual, repeating work that drains a lean digital-health team — so the science hours go to the science.
- A second operator brain, local — Two San Diego builders who can compare notes on the operator/automation side, no agency layer, no lock-in.
The science is the hard part — the data and software layer around it shouldn't be. That's the part I build.
Want to try a tech department for an hour?
I'll give it a quick first look. No Calendly · no meeting · neighbor to neighbor.
Either way · I'll give it a quick first look. Text PJ at 858-461-8054. No Calendly · neighbor to neighbor.
Find David publicly
his work, not ours
- LinkedIn: David Hankey, Ph.D.
- Company: Bio-scientist & digital-health software founder · wearable sensors / clinical-trial data · San Diego
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