He spent his twenties writing q-learning libraries and quant models. Now he is rebuilding the unglamorous plumbing of in-home healthcare, one delivered catheter at a time.
Somewhere right now a doctor is faxing an order for wound dressings. Not emailing. Not clicking. Faxing - paper curling out of a machine into a back office, where someone keys it into a system that talks to no other system. Multiply that by catheters, diabetes supplies, oxygen, infusion kits, and the rest, and you get roughly $50 billion a year of medical products moving through an industry that time forgot.
Dhaivat Pandya looked at that and saw what most people walk past: not a tragedy, a backlog. The founder and CEO of Verse Medical is building the software layer for in-home healthcare - the connective tissue between the doctor who orders supplies, the company that ships them, and the patient recovering on a couch instead of a hospital bed. The pitch is almost boring in its clarity. Make home the best place to heal. Then handle the logistics so well that nobody has to think about them.
Verse Medical operates out of New York and has grown to roughly 160 to 200 people. It came up through Y Combinator's Summer 2018 batch and carries a backer list that reads like a who's-who of people who fund things early and well: Y Combinator, Abstract Ventures, Josh Buckley, and Paul Graham. By 2024 the company was reporting around $5 million in revenue on a team of about a hundred, and it has been hiring hard ever since.
What makes the company interesting is what makes the founder interesting. Pandya is not a healthcare lifer who learned to code. He is a coder who learned healthcare - and he picked the part of medicine with the least glory and the most friction. Supplies. The stuff that arrives in a box. The boring middle of the system, which turns out to be where the system breaks.
Before there was a company, there was a resume that did not obviously lead to one. Pandya studied computer science and statistics at Harvard - a combination that gives you both the machine and the math behind it. He took the heavy courses: algorithms, machine learning, computer graphics, systems security. The kind of curriculum that produces people who are comfortable when the abstraction leaks.
Then he went where sharp technical people go to get sharper. Quantitative research at Kensho Technologies. A stint as a core developer and consultant at Apollo GraphQL, back in its Meteor days, contributing to tools that thousands of engineers would later lean on. Quantitative research at Two Sigma, one of the most respected quant shops in finance. It is a tour through the places where software has to be both elegant and correct, because the cost of being wrong is measured in money or downtime.
And all the while, he was building in the open. On GitHub he is Poincare - named for the French mathematician Henri Poincare - with a bio that says everything and nothing: "Sailing the open seas." His repositories tell the story of a restless mind: QLearn, a fast q-learning library written in Haskell; a constraint-solving implementation also in Haskell; an HTML5 game engine called Hydroxide; SixthSense, with ports in both C# and Java. He wrote tutorials, too - graph algorithms in Ruby, forms in Elixir's Phoenix framework, machine learning explainers - published on Apollo's blog, LogRocket, SitePoint, and Medium.
This is the tell. Long before a board deck or a hiring plan, Pandya was the kind of person who builds the thing, then writes the guide so the next person can build it too. That instinct - useful software, clearly explained - is the throughline from a Haskell side project to a company that ships medical supplies.
In October 2025 he posted publicly about how Verse Medical interviews - a small window into how he thinks about people. The signal he looks for is the same one his own GitHub history broadcasts: can you build the thing? Not credential the thing, not narrate the thing. Build it.
That is a particular kind of company. The boring middle of healthcare does not reward founders who want applause. It rewards founders who will sit with a fax workflow until they understand exactly why it persists, and then write the software that finally makes it unnecessary. Pandya picked a problem where the only victory condition is that it works - quietly, repeatedly, for patients who will never know his name.
Came up shipping open-source libraries and tutorials. Still optimizes for people who make useful things.
CS and statistics at Harvard, then quant research at Kensho and Two Sigma. Comfortable when the math gets hard.
Chose medical-supply logistics - the least photogenic, highest-friction corner of healthcare.
His GitHub handle is Poincare, after the mathematician Henri Poincare - and the profile bio simply reads, "Sailing the open seas."
He wrote QLearn, a q-learning library in Haskell, and Hydroxide, an HTML5 game engine - both years before founding a healthtech company.
He has bylines on Apollo GraphQL, LogRocket, and SitePoint, explaining algorithms, databases, and web frameworks to other engineers.
He studied both computer science and statistics at Harvard - a quant's toolkit, later pointed at home-healthcare logistics.
Verse Medical began life as JetLenses, a consumer venture, before the pivot to the much larger world of medical supplies.