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Krishnan Chakravarthy M.D., Ph.D · the physician-scientist-engineer building neurostimulation devices — and the rare founder who speaks clinical, hardware, and code
Krishnan Chakravarthy, M.D., Ph.D is a physician-scientist, engineer, and founder of NXTSTIM, and President of the American Society of Pain & Neuroscience — operating at the intersection of clinical medicine, neurostimulation hardware, and regulated software.
Who he is
Founder-to-founder, not vendor-to-prospect
Krishnan founds and builds in the hardest regulated corner there is — neurostimulation for pain, where the device, the clinical evidence (ASPN), and the FDA pathway all have to line up. PJ runs SideGuy from North County on a narrower but adjacent conviction: the tech to automate the operator layer already exists; what's missing is a human who makes it usable. For a device founder, that's the custom software + AI tooling that sits around the science.
What a SideGuy does for Krishnan
Where a device founder and an operator-builder actually intersect
- Regulated-software operator layer — Custom tooling around FDA-regulated workflows — clinical data capture, registry/evidence wrangling, document and audit trails — built to your process, not a rented dashboard.
- AI that earns its place — Not AI-for-the-buzzword: targeted automation for the manual, repeating work that drains a lean device team — so the clinical and engineering hours go to the science.
- A second operator brain, local — Two San Diego builders who can compare notes on the operator/automation side without an agency layer or a lock-in contract.
The science is the hard part — the operator 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 Krishnan publicly
his work, not ours
- LinkedIn: Krishnan Chakravarthy M.D., Ph.D
- Company: Founder @ NXTSTIM · President, American Society of Pain & Neuroscience (ASPN) · San Diego
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