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dblizinski/README.md

Dan Blizinski 👋

Building the Open-Source Future of Medical Devices

I'm the Director of Open-Source Business Strategy at Openwater, where we're creating the first credibly neutral platform for global medical device innovation—think Ethereum's protocol-level approach applied to healthcare hardware.

🎯 Current Mission

  • Democratizing Medical Imaging: Reducing device development costs from $119M to $15M through open-source collaboration
  • Community Building: Growing a global network of developers, researchers, and clinicians contributing to OpenLIFU and OpenMOTION platforms
  • Revenue Innovation: Building sustainable business models around open-source hardware (enterprise SaaS, data partnerships, certification programs)
  • Licensing Strategy: Leading transition from AGPL to Apache 2.0 to enable clinical translation and academic adoption

🔧 Background

15+ years building Kubernetes-native platforms, container orchestration solutions, and cloud infrastructure:

  • Canon Medical: Built AI analytics platform processing 2M+ patients across AWS/Azure
  • StorMagic: Led EdgeControl platform managing tens of thousands of distributed edge clusters
  • SUSE: Drove enterprise Linux strategy with Factory codebase and openSUSE contributions

📚 Thought Leadership

Founder of The Product Manager's Journal - practical insights on platform engineering, Kubernetes adoption, and cloud-native product development.

🤝 Let's Connect

  • Open-Source Collaboration: Always interested in partnerships with academic institutions, medical imaging communities (3D Slicer, OHIF, MONAI), and open-source hardware organizations
  • Speaking: Available for conferences on open-source medical devices, platform strategy, and community building
  • Community: Join our Discord or check out our documentation

🌍 Why This Matters

3.5 billion people lack access to basic medical imaging. Open-source can solve this coordination failure by aligning incentives across researchers, manufacturers, and healthcare providers globally.

💬 "The best way to predict the future is to invent it—together, in the open."

📫 Reach me: dblizinski@gmail.com | LinkedIn


**OpenLIFU-python:**

🧠 Open-source Low Intensity Focused Ultrasound toolbox | Democratizing neuromodulation research | Python


**My personal projects repo:**

💡 Experiments in platform engineering, Kubernetes, and cloud-native architecture | Learning in public

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