Andre Quina
Software Engineer at Arcadia
Medford, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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RockstarAndre Quina is a seasoned software engineer with 15 years of experience delivering reliable back-end systems, now based in Medford, Massachusetts and currently at Arcadia after a long tenure as Senior Principal Software Engineer at MITRE. He has deep expertise in simulation and health data modeling, evidenced by contributions to the widely used Synthea synthetic patient simulator where he refined encounter processing, lifecycle rules, and vital-stat record-keeping. Comfortable operating at both the architectural and implementation levels, Andre has a track record of improving core logic in complex systems and ensuring auditable, data-driven behaviors. His background suggests strong domain knowledge in healthcare software and large-scale, mission-driven engineering practices. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who blends meticulous code-level improvements with system-wide design thinking.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (10)
simulations10
simulation10
smart-on-fhir10
hl7-fhir10
health-data10
ruby10
synthetic-data9
testing5
ab-testing5
abtest5
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
synthetichealth/synthea
Apr 2016 - Feb 2017
Synthetic Patient Population Simulator
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 10 commits, 4 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Andre primarily focused on enhancing the core logic of the Synthea simulation. Their contributions involved adding and modifying encounter ordering and processing within the system. These changes impacted multiple files related to the simulation's behavior, most notably focusing on health data and encounter modeling. The code changes also included adjustments to the lifecycle rules, adding record-keeping for vital statistics and conditions.
health-datafhirpatientsimulationsimulator
projecttacoma/simplexml_parser
May 2014 - Feb 2015
Parser for the MAT SimpleXml format... parses into the HDS HQMF Model
Contributions:43 commits, 1 branch in 9 months
parsersimple-xml
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