My name is Igor Koval.

I’m an engineer and researcher by training.

I hold a PhD in applied math and neuroscience. My work focused on forecasting the progression of neurodegenerative diseases. A chapter that uncommonly raised my bar for rigor and focus.

I also taught for years.

But as I advanced in academia, something struck me: even as we pushed frontier science, it wasn’t translating into better care for patients.

I co-founded Qairnel with my PhD supervisor to close the gap between research and real life.

We built Docmemo.com to help people with cognitive concerns. We assessed the memory of 45,000+ people, partnered with leading pharma, and recruited for top-tier Alzheimer’s trials.

I was CTO and CPO. It was intense and extraordinary. We bootstrapped the company for more than four years. And it gave me a front-row seat to something I didn’t fully grasp before.

In healthcare, so much is fundamentally broken.

The causes are complex. But one pattern kept coming back: care runs on fragile workflows (handoffs, scheduling, information transfer) rarely treated as first-order problems. Clinicians and care organizations lack time, incentives, and the right tools. Patients pay the price.

So I left Qairnel at the end of 2025. The company is still scaling. But I wanted to work on the layer that determines whether care actually happens.

I’m now building again, still in healthcare.

I focus on care coordination, where follow-through breaks, patients drop off, time leaks, and information gets lost. That’s the kind of problem I want to spend the next decade on.

In parallel, I love working on personal projects which tend to fall into three themes:

• repairing messy workflows (like kaba.eco, a collaborative meal-planning tool),
• spreading (scientific) knowledge (like liglou.fr, infographics about environmental issues),
• promoting my Ukrainian roots (like maisondukraine.fr).

My 2026 goal is to publish articles about my ancestors, using a family lens to shed light on the Ukrainian state of mind today.

Across both professional and personal work, my operating system stays the same: understand first; ship something small and fast; iterate.

If you want to discuss a problem, explore a project together, or grab a coffee, DM me at koval.igor.92@gmail.com.