Naveen Kumar

Healthcare engineering and product executive, building AI-first patient access.

A data nerd turned product leader, based in Pittsburgh. 15+ years in healthcare tech and a decade at Treatspace, leading engineering, product, and an AI-first transformation.

Experience15+ years
FocusHealthcare AI
StatusOpen to what's next

Selected work

Platform and AI work in healthcare, from patient access to internal tooling.

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Experience

2020 — Now
VP, Engineering & Product Management · Treatspace

Leads product and engineering for an AI-centric patient-access platform ($3.9M ARR, $8.9M lifetime value). Scaled the org from 6 to 47 across 8 functions.

2025 — Now
Consultant · Scale The Product (BI Collaborative)

End-to-end BI for a human-services provider: a three-layer Azure SQL pipeline and Power BI dashboards to optimize staffing.

2019 — 2020
Technical Product Manager · Treatspace

Owned the roadmap through the PracticeBeat build: 400+ use cases, ~80 shipped deliverables, and the path to cash-flow-positive.

2017 — 2019
Engineering Manager · Treatspace

Led agile delivery of PracticeBeat and established the Agile practice, lifting engineering productivity 30%.

2016 — 2017
Data Analytics Consultant · Treatspace

Built the company's first ML clinical decision-support model, lifting referral adherence from ~45% to over 85%.

How I help

Six areas where I do my best work.

Engineering & product leadership

Org design, hiring, board reporting, and product strategy from discovery through delivery.

Leadership

Generative AI & ML

LLM orchestration with Claude and OpenAI, agents and RAG, evaluation and guardrails.

AI / ML

Patient access & healthcare SaaS

Discovery, eligibility, scheduling, and referral loops that get people to care.

Domain

Data science & analytics

Python, SQL, ML scoring models, and BI in Power BI, Tableau, and Looker.

Data

Data engineering

Medallion pipelines on Azure SQL and BigQuery, ETL, and PHI governance.

Engineering

Platform & interoperability

Kubernetes on GCP, FHIR R4, HL7, EHR integration, and HIPAA security.

Interop

Highlights & impact

Built PracticeBeat and led Treatspace's pivot from referral networks to a full patient-access platform.

Treatspace · patient access

Scaled engineering and product from 6 to 47 across 8 functions, hiring the 10 managers who now lead them.

Org & team building

Set the HIPAA and PHI governance posture, earning an A+ security rating five years running.

Security & data governance
ARR growth8.6×
ARPU lift+1,845%
Team scaled6 → 47
Referral adherence45% → 85%
Security ratingA+ · 5 yrs

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