From Autoimmune Crisis to Startup Founder: How My Health Emergency Created OpenMyPro
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Ex-Amazon Engineer · Healthcare Innovation
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In 2022, my body started attacking itself. What began as unexplained fatigue escalated into a full autoimmune crisis that left me unable to work, unable to think clearly, and desperate for answers. That medical emergency became the worst and most important experience of my life because it revealed a problem I could not unsee — and one I was uniquely positioned to solve.
I was working at Amazon AWS at the time, building distributed systems that served millions of users. I was at the peak of my engineering career, earning well into six figures, with a clear path to senior roles. Then the symptoms started. Joint pain that would not go away. Brain fog so thick I could not write code. Fatigue that made a normal workday feel like a marathon.
Navigating a Broken System as a Patient
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