Fora Health
Rebuilding a clinical study app into a consumer product — new UI stack, design system, and contributing to product direction in a health tech startup.
Context
Fora Health had been building clinical-study tooling for depression (MDD) research — a patient-facing Android app and a web app for clinical teams. The challenge was to transform those tools into a real consumer product, reframed around shared decision making and treatment optimization.
What I did
I joined as a software engineer on the Android app. Shape Up was already the team’s working process, and I worked within it — writing and contributing to pitches, and adding input to product strategy discussions alongside my engineering work.
On the engineering side, I led a full rewrite of the UI: migrating to Jetpack Compose, implementing a new design system across all app screens, and reworking the navigation architecture. I also ran a proof of concept with Kotlin Multiplatform to explore sharing business logic across Android and iOS.
Outcome
I started full-time and moved to part-time — and despite that transition, kept pace with the iOS development team on feature delivery. The app shipped with:
- A new design system implemented end-to-end across all screens
- A modern Compose-based UI stack replacing the legacy view system
- Reworked navigation logic improving flow and maintainability
- Early-stage KMP integration for future cross-platform code sharing
Working within an existing Shape Up process, I contributed input to product direction alongside the core engineering work.