// software engineer
// philosopher by training, accident, stubbornness

fn victor_parchment() → Engineer

// who

I build software for places where getting it wrong has consequences. Clinical trials, prescription management, humanitarian logistics. Case queues, audit logs, fraud detection.

I started in philosophy. I left academia because the decisions were already being made, without me, by people who weren't waiting for a thesis.

// what i do

Backend, frontend, infrastructure — whatever the system needs. Rust mostly, TypeScript when the frontend calls for it. I write the case-management layer, the audit trail, the thing that lets a non-technical expert understand why something broke.

// what i've done
2024– Petscribers — built the platform from scratch. Fraud detection, audit infra, dosage maths nobody had documented.
2021– Iceberg — AI patient search across 45 sites, 1.6M patients.
2018–21 Miniature — knowledge systems for the UN, diagnostics for refugee camps.
2012–18 Simpathic — clinical reasoning tools, trialled at Johns Hopkins and Harvard.
ongoing smallstack — small Rust crates, because the existing options were too much or not enough.

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// philosophy
A policy constraint is usually a design flaw wearing a different hat.
Philosophy defended in systems carries weight that thesis pages cannot.
Most failures aren't malicious. They're confidence that outran its evidence.

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// contact
emailhello@vparchment.com
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