UC Irvine
AboutBrendan
Director of Software Engineering with over 16 years history of developing high quality enterprise software in the healthcare sector. Critical team member essential to growing two very small startups to very high valuations and liquidation events. Versatile and experienced working in fast-paced environments with many roles and responsibilities ranging from leadership to individual contributor. Skilled in building quality products, developing code using best practices, system and software architecture, DB design, understanding the SDLC, reducing tech debt, leadership, team-building, mentoring junior developers, building teams, developer, integration with other vendors. Knowledge of several languages and with solid understanding of infrastructure and distributed systems, leveraging cloud services (AWS) and IaC tools. Specialize in all aspects of software development, with an emphasis on quality, scalability, and stability, and am passionate for finding the best solutions to challenging problems. Follow agile methodologies including Scrum and Lean and find incremental ways to make improvements to ensure success for a development team. Served as architect, manager, and individual contributor building a patient engagement solution. Health information exchange is a particular area of focus, with direct experience with building a Clinical Data Repository that utilized HL7/CDA/custom interfaces, integration with EHRs, eMPIs, and other health systems. Also, helped build Mirth Connect, a popular open source integration engine, and see that product to profitability and success. Highly motivated to work on and with open source software and very interested in leadership opportunities for greenfield development for projects requiring technical contribution/expertise and people management.