Pharmacist | Digital Health Product Builder
I build tools that fix broken healthcare workflows. Not because I'm a developer — but because I've spent enough time inside these systems to know exactly where they fail.
Medication safety failures are rarely caused by lack of clinical knowledge.
They're caused by fragmented systems.
After working in high-volume community pharmacy in South Africa and hospital pharmacy in New Zealand, I kept seeing the same pattern:
The information exists — but not where it's needed.
I started building because I got tired of watching smart people work around broken infrastructure.
What I'm Building
Stock intelligence at the point of dispensing
At Middlemore Hospital, medication shortages get communicated through emails, Teams messages, static PHARMAC notices, and verbal handovers between shifts.
The information exists. But it's never available where it matters most — at the moment you're dispensing.
You discover the shortage mid-transaction. You stop, check emails, call procurement. You contact the prescriber. You explain the situation to the patient. You find an alternative. You start again.
The risk isn't that people don't know. The risk is that the information arrives too late.
Instead of sending disruption emails that get buried, the system:
Example based on a real current PHARMAC notice:
No email checking. No phone calls. No surprises mid-transaction.
Ingests PHARMAC notices, recall data, supplier ETAs. Categorises by type: recall, delay, allocation limit, brand transition.
Maps disruptions to specific medications. Matches alternatives. Prioritises to avoid alert fatigue.
Flags issues when you select a medication. Shows context, alternatives, and prescriber notes.
Single-brand funding per molecule. Centralised Hospital Medicines List. PHARMAC coordinates nationally. Low brand variability means disruption signals are predictable and systematisable.
Move alerts upstream. At the point of prescribing, the doctor sees supply status before they write the order. Problem prevented, not managed.
In Development
Proof-of-concept dispensing portal. Built with Django/Python. Designed from direct observation of Middlemore Hospital workflows.
Live
CPD that actually develops professionals
🔗 reflectrx.onrender.comEvery pharmacist in South Africa must complete continuing professional development to keep their license. The system is supposed to ensure competence. In practice, it measures compliance.
No meaningful assessment — just logging hours. No structured reflection — just text boxes. No cross-sector exposure — community pharmacists never see hospital practice. Annual submission bottleneck — the portal crashes every December 31st.
The deeper issue: professional competency gaps accumulate silently, and nobody knows until something goes wrong.
Instead of tracking hours, it tracks capability.
For pharmacists: Real learning, cross-sector exposure, no December panic.
For regulators: Verifiable competence, not just logged activities.
For the profession: A bridge for unemployed pharmacists to stay sharp. A pathway for career transitions.
Personalised learning paths
Realistic scenarios
Guided RIPE framework
Auto-sync ready
Competency dashboards showing strengths and gaps. Predictive pathways for remediation. Institutional licensing for hospital departments. Direct regulatory integration.
I'm not there yet. But the foundation is designed with this in mind.
✓ Live Prototype
Scenario engine + structured reflections. Built with Django/Python, deployed on Render. Iterating based on pharmacist feedback.
I start with observation, not assumptions.
My process:
I care more about whether something works in a real workflow than whether it looks impressive in a demo.
Middlemore Hospital (Te Whatu Ora) — Auckland, NZ | June 2024 – Present
Medipost Pharmacy — Cape Town, SA | Feb 2022 – Sep 2023
Dis-Chem Pharmacies — Johannesburg, SA | Jan 2021 – Dec 2021
Postgraduate Certificate in Digital Health (In Progress)
University of Auckland
Bachelor of Pharmacy (BPharm)
University of the Witwatersrand — 2020
🏅 Dean's Merit List
Through my Postgraduate Certificate in Digital Health (University of Auckland), I'm deepening my understanding of: