He is our front-end developer, who turns code into actual screens that medical staff interact with every day. To do that with full power, Artem recharges in the gym - and soon also while flying over forests.

Artem, which parts of imito do you take care of?

I mostly work on the desktop versions of imitoCam and imitoWound. While medical staff take wound pictures with their smartphones, they sometimes also want to review wound healing on a computer screen to make more complex decisions. I’d say about 70% of my work involves adjusting the user-facing (front-end) software of these desktop versions.

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Have you always worked in the healthcare industry?

I worked in several areas, but one software I worked on before was as well for doctors to take snapshots of patients after surgery to track their progress. Now at imito, in addition to photos, they can also measure wound size and track the wound area reduction precisely. I’m happy that I can help further in the medical sphere at imito now.

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We also translate some information that doctors and nurses gather into statistical diagrams, for example, for all decubitus cases recorded. We visualise these because it is quite important for customers to review why and when a decubitus happened and discuss it with insurance companies.

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These statistics were developed by us in 2024 and I further improved them. We also restricted the view so that only quality managers can see them - not other user roles like nurses, doctors, or supervisors. On the other hand, for example, quality managers can only view the wound assessments recorded, while nurses can edit their own assessments.

And the different roles are configured via the dashboard?

Yes, the dashboard is an admin panel where (IT) managers of the hospital, but also our imito customer support team around Florian, Christoph, and Svetlana, usually have access to help out.

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The dashboard reminds me of a Swiss knife. It's configurable like a Swiss knife - and for each customer, we configure it individually. In there, we set up the users and their roles, add new departments step by step, enable any custom-built feature, or disable a full app screen - all based on the customers’ needs.

Have you always liked playing with digital Swiss knives, or what came before IT?

I remember playing with knives and fires in my childhood, yes. While studying Computer Science, I was interested in economics for a while, but I’ve stuck to IT for over 12 years now.

Actually, the very first money I earned was by reselling some building tools - not quite knives, but similar. My dad worked all his life in the construction industry. So right on my 14th birthday, he gave me some builder tools and told me he thought I could make 50% profit reselling them if I set up a stand close to the local building store. So I did - it was very exciting to make my first deals on my 14th birthday.

Are you also building your own digital Swiss knife in your spare time?

I once developed an all-rounder appointment booking app to book a massage or barber. Why? Because I was annoyed by calling and texting back and forth with exactly these service providers. I just wanted to book it, and at that time, I only found one existing application that maybe had half of the features I wanted. So I just built it myself instead.

But you are still going strong in building up your own YouTube channel - what's the story?

Yes, to be honest, the first video was rather an accident. I had an American friend who I went to the gym with, and one day I decided that just wishing him “happy birthday” was too boring. So I decided to create a happy birthday video combined with a parody for him.

I think I cut that video 40 times in different ways - 40 tries to create a funny 8-second-long happy birthday video. I remember the cat on my knees falling asleep while I kept cutting. But I really liked the video in the end, and that made me continue. Now I release one video every day at 11 am, always recorded at the gym - and have been going strong for 4 years. Now, it's my way of creating art, and I really enjoy it.

The gym is your happy place and you go there no matter what?

Sometimes I don't want to go. Sometimes I have lazy days, but my personal trainer doesn't appreciate that. He has also become a good friend, and we record videos together, run marathons, and so on. So if he goes, I gotta go. Mostly four times a week on set days, we lift barbells as well as do other kinds of bodybuilding, just like Arnold Schwarzenegger.

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I'm pretty tall, so I have had some back issues since high school, and my therapist told me I just gotta go to the gym. So I started working out. That was in 2013, and now I actually like it. By now, it's a lifestyle - “the gym fixes everything.”

Lastly, any dreams about what you would spend your money on if you became a rich YouTuber?

Oh, yes. I have three “unrealistic” dreams. First, I want to visit Antarctica - that seems to cost around €50K. The second one is climbing Mount Everest. Maybe that one is rather unrealistic because I could get some health issues from the low air pressure up there. But maybe I can manage that if I run a few half-marathons beforehand.

And last but not least, the third unrealistic dream is going to space. There are now companies that let you enter space for a short while and then fly back to Earth - just to see it all from above for a short, joyful moment. But I guess that costs more than €500K.

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But I also have one realistic dream - when I was a child, I lived close to the forest and always saw helicopters flying around because we had a lot of wildfires. So since I was 3 years old, I’ve been looking up at the sky with fascination, dreaming about flying at night, and even tried to build my own helicopter out of two wooden sticks. Of course, that didn’t work.

Now I am a few years older and wiser, and I am actually in the middle of getting a Private Pilot License. My goal, not my dream, is to buy my own glider and then enjoy nature from above and look down with fascination. I already passed the theory test; now just the practical part needs to be done.

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Thank you, Artem, for your patience and imagination in twisting and tweaking our desktop versions so that we can fulfil almost every realistic and unrealistic dream of our customers.