Sam Likins
Senior Software Engineer - MTS IV (WISP) at Panasonic Avionics Corporation
Lake Forest, California, United States
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Top SchoolSam Likins is a senior software engineer with over a decade of experience, currently driving embedded and backend work at Panasonic Avionics from Lake Forest, California. He blends backend integration and DevOps expertise—having improved e-prescription integration in the widely used OpenEMR project (NewCrop SOAP caching, DB schema and sanitization fixes) and refactored Vagrant/provisioning to smooth developer workflows for a Python application framework. As owner of WSI-Services and a former CTO across multiple ventures, he brings entrepreneurial instincts and a habit of improving the status quo through pragmatic troubleshooting. A former U.S. Navy airman, he pairs disciplined problem-solving with a future-minded focus on reliable, maintainable systems and developer experience.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, General Education, High School Diploma, General Education at Tustin High SchoolUS Navy
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Github Skills (15)
emr10
php10
bash10
health10
ehealth10
vagrant10
sql10
medical10
e-health10
soap10
database-design9
database-administration8
python8
documentation7
documentations7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
openemr/openemr
Oct 2013 - Sep 2016
The most popular open source electronic health records and medical practice management solution.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 21 PRs, 14 comments in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Sam primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the OpenEMR system, focusing on the integration of NewCrop e-prescription services. Their work involved creating and modifying classes for SOAP request caching, database table definitions, and connectors to interact with the NewCrop API. They also refactored code related to health plan data and patient document handling, ensuring accurate data storage and retrieval. Furthermore, the user addressed data storage issues, including sanitization and version upgrades.
emrfhirelectronicmedicalelectronic-health-records
datafolklabs/cement
Jan 2018 - Jan 2018
Application Framework for Python
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:8 commits, 6 PRs, 25 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Sam focused on improving the development and testing environment by modifying the Vagrant setup. They adjusted the `Vagrantfile` to execute a specific script at provision and refactored the provisioning script to set up the virtual environment and manage dependencies, addressing issues related to Docker and virtual environment configuration. Additionally, they corrected documentation related to links and compilation, improving the overall developer experience.
pythonframeworkapplication-framework
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