About Snapval
Evaluations completed at the speed of care.
Why Snapval exists
Medical education depends on timely, meaningful feedback — but the tools we use to deliver it haven't kept pace with how busy clinicians actually work. Evaluation forms that live behind logins, require desktop access, or demand ten minutes of a preceptor's attention between patients simply don't get filled out.
Snapval was built around a single premise: evaluations should happen in real time. The result is more accurate, meaningful, and memorable feedback that respect both the schedules and the humanity of evaluators and trainees alike. QR codes and six-digit PINs let an attending open a form on their phone in seconds — no account required, no app to download. The trainee gets structured, actionable feedback. The attending gets back to the next patient. Or the slopes.
The name is exactly what it sounds like: a snapshot of a trainee's performance, captured in the moment, before the clinical details fade.
The person behind it
I'm a pediatric hospitalist who has spent the better part of three decades at the intersection of medicine, software, and curiosity. My career has wound through clinical care, computational biology, and more side projects than I can count — which is a polite way of saying I am an inveterate tinkerer who rarely considers a problem fully solved or a new problem fully out of bounds. I built Snapval because I wanted to use my skills to solve a problem I encountered every day in the hospital: how to give better feedback without adding more to an already overwhelming to-do list.
I've been writing code for the web since before CSS was a thing, and I've carried that habit into research (genomics pipelines, data visualization, computational biology) and now into tools that try to make a clinician's day a little less cluttered.
Outside the hospital and the keyboard, I'm a husband, a father, and someone who would genuinely rather be on a trail, on a slope, or anywhere that doesn't require completing required paperwork. Snapval is, in part, my contribution toward a world with slightly less of the latter.
Under the hood
Snapval is built with SvelteKit, backed by Supabase for auth and data, and designed to be fast on any device. It follows a privacy-first architecture: evaluation content is stored on industrial strength cloud database infrastructure, restricted by row-level security, and magic-link authentication that means no passwords to forget or lose.