Boston · MIT Sloan
Amar H.
Shah.
Engineer turned MBA. Building agents for the future of healthcare.
I grew up the son of two physicians, which means I learned early what good care does for the people around it, and what the system does to the people running it. I spent five years building AI infrastructure at Ikigai, a Series A startup before MIT. Now I’m in business school building agents for the parts of healthcare that are critically ignored.
My work is personal because family is at the heart of my decision making. Seeing my family struggle with chronic conditions and fighting for the care they need in an inefficient system is deeply motivating. The argument I keep coming back to is simple: if the people who can see what’s broken don’t try to fix it, the system stays the way it is.
Off the clock
Friday-night baker.
Mostly bread, pastries, and pizzas, with slow ferments where the timing teaches you patience. There’s something about kneading dough that brings you out of technical problems and grounds you. Once a year I’ll host a home-cafe, and if you’re lucky I’ll make croissants again.
Saturday mornings
Runner, mile by mile.
President of the Sloan Run Club. The best conversations I have happen thirty minutes into a Saturday morning, when nobody can lie to themselves anymore. Training for the Columbus Marathon this October.
A slow way to remember
Photographer, always summiting.
Kilimanjaro in 2026 was the hardest hike I’ve done in both body and mind. I take pictures when I travel because it captures slow moments when life moves too fast. I frame my favorite memories on a wall I walk past every day.
If you want to talk healthcare × AI, find the best coffee shops in Boston, or trade a new cookie recipe, shoot me an email.