Story

The full route.

First website at eight. A degree I left. Code, a business to pay for it, pharma, and a master's. Then BiteLabs, and the BiteWorld branches. The homepage is the quick ride; this is the long version, station by station.

In a sentence“Give me a problem and it will be solved.”

Stop 1 of 8Age 8

First website.

I built my first website at eight. That's where the line starts, and I never really got off it.

It was a little site about me, made by experimenting in Microsoft FrontPage. A few years later I moved on to Dreamweaver MX. If you remember either of those, you're one of the real OGs.

Stop 2 of 8Line closed

Biomedical science.

In 2008 I started a biomedical science degree at Keele University, then left it and switched lines.

Honestly, the career path after it wasn't clear. What I did know was that I didn't want to be a biomedical scientist working in a lab. Not every branch goes somewhere, and that's fine. It stays on the map as a closed line, not rubbed out.

Stop 3 of 8Change here

Computer science.

In 2010 I switched to computer science at the University of Salford: programming, logic and design thinking, the full toolkit.

I funded the degree myself, so I started a freelance media agency to pay for it. Websites, marketing, photography, graphics, video. My first attempt at a business.

Then a second line opened: pharma marketing and strategy. From here, two lines run side by side.

Stop 4 of 8Two lines at once

The pharma line.

I worked in pharma marketing and strategy, on the digital side: digital operations at CSL Vifor and digital programmes at Moderna.

Through medical communication agencies across Manchester and London, I also worked with AstraZeneca, Pfizer and Boehringer Ingelheim.

Earlier roles, before VZN

CSL ViforEarlier role
Digital operations
cut in agency costs
60%
increase in engagement
40%
ModernaEarlier role
Digital programmes

Also worked withAstraZeneca · Pfizer · Boehringer Ingelheim

Through medical communication agencies in Manchester and London.

Stop 5 of 8MSc · Manchester

Back to study, alongside the work.

In 2014 I started a master's in health data science at the University of Manchester, alongside the day job. The work ran on one line and the study on the other.

Stop 6 of 8Interchange · 2024

BiteLabs fellowship.

In 2024 I did the BiteLabs fellowship. Then I joined the team.

I've long believed that strategy and innovation in pharma, biotech and digital health should come from within. The clinicians on the front line, seeing patients and prescribing the medicines, should be the ones driving it.

I did BiteLabs to immerse myself among them: to understand the challenges they face and the ideas they have, and to help empower them. This is where the lines meet. The code, the data and the commercial experience, finally in one place.

Stop 7 of 8The line splits

BiteWorld.

Today I'm Programme & Operations Director at BiteWorld, a fellowship and education organisation running cohorts across the UK, US and KSA. I'm Global Operations Director for BiteLabs, and I run the operational backbone with a small team that works like a big one.

I've reviewed 500+ applications from clinicians moving into digital health.

A lot of what keeps it running is automation I've built: Airtable systems, a meeting-to-task pipeline (Google Meet → Todoist → Slack), email and lifecycle automation, and content workflows. Together, they hand back around two full-time roles' worth of work.

The line splits · one branch per venture

BiteLabs UK
Role Global Operations Director
BiteLabs USA
Role Global Operations Director
BiteLabs KSA
BitePharma
Role Global Programme Lead and Operations
BitePACES
Role Operations
DeepLabel
Clinical evaluation and specialist annotation for healthcare AI.

Stop 8 of 8HEAD → main

You are here.

Running BiteWorld's operations, and building the same kind of systems for other teams through VZN by Hussain. Four lines leave this station.

VZN by HussainWork with meAI and automation for teams drowning in manual work./vzn
NowWhat's runningWhat I'm working on right now./now
LabSmall toolsThings I build in public and give away. Newest: Lanyard.lab.hussainahmad.co.uk
One more line is planned: speaking. It’s drawn dashed until it’s real. Talks I’d give →

View the whole story as git log --graph --oneline

git log --graph --oneline

*(HEAD -> main) now: BiteWorld ops + VZN by Hussain + the Lab
| *c41b07 (deeplabel) DeepLabel
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| *5e90d2 (bitepaces) BitePACES
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| *a07c3f (bitepharma) BitePharma
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| *6f1c82 (bitelabs-ksa) BiteLabs KSA
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| *d3f614 (bitelabs-usa) BiteLabs USA
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| *8b2ea5 (bitelabs-uk) BiteLabs UK
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*4d2e1b BiteWorld: Programme & Operations Director
*   f0a9e4 merge: BiteLabs fellowship (2024)
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| *9b3e77 pharma: Moderna, digital programmes
* |b5c7a3 MSc health data science, Manchester (2014)
| *e21f9d pharma: CSL Vifor, digital operations
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*7d04ba computer science, Salford (2010) + freelance media agency
| *3c91e0 biomed science, Keele (2008, line closed)
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*a8f2c1 first website, age 8

Hashes are decorative. The graph follows the order of the line, not a CV.