Andrzej Taramina
Chief Innovation Officer
Barrie, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolAndrzej Taramina is a seasoned technology executive and entrepreneur with 18+ years of hands-on engineering and 25+ years advising organizations on aligning technology to business outcomes, currently serving as Chief Innovation Officer at Afflo where he leads architecture and product strategy for a scalable organ transplant platform. He blends deep healthcare domain expertise—data management, informatics and analytics—with proven success in startups, turnarounds and Fortune 1000 consulting, delivering measurable ROI through pragmatic architecture and automation. A practiced architect across cloud, integration, big data and Web Services, he has driven complex migrations (ICD-10), ETL and enterprise re‑engineering programs and built hyper-productive distributed teams. An active open-source committer and embedded/IoT contributor, he has implemented low-level display and touch support for GUIslice and extended the eXist XML database with HTTP/XQuery capabilities, reflecting both systems-level fluency and product-focus. Outside work he’s an eclectic maker — from jump-rope and ballroom dance instructing to mushing and photography — hinting at a creative, disciplined approach to problem solving.
18 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
KMCIBMath - Co-op Honours Computer Science & Statistics, Computer Science, Statistics, Quantum Mechanics, BMath - Co-op Honours Computer Science & Statistics, Computer Science, Statistics, Quantum Mechanics at University of Waterloo
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Github Skills (18)
xquery10
http10
c1110
java10
c1710
javas10
touchscreen10
embedded10
arduino10
esp82669
rest-api9
esp329
xml9
application-server8
windows-gui7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
eXist-db/exist
Sep 2007 - Feb 2012
eXist Native XML Database and Application Platform
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:180 commits in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Andrzej's contributions focused on implementing and enhancing functionalities within the eXist database. They developed a new XQuery method (`response:set-status-code()`) to handle HTTP status codes in REST-based applications. The user also added methods (`doPut()` and `doDelete()`) to the XQueryServlet for processing HTTP PUT and DELETE requests and improved response handling. Furthermore, they integrated a new httpclient extension module to invoke HTTP methods within XQuery.
nosqlxml-databasexmlxprocxquery
ImpulseAdventure/GUIslice
Dec 2017 - Feb 2018
GUIslice drag & drop embedded GUI in C for touchscreen TFT on Arduino, Raspberry Pi, ARM, ESP8266 / ESP32 / M5stack using Adafruit-GFX / TFT_eSPI / UTFT / SDL
Role in this project:Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 7 PRs, 1 comment in 1 month
Contributions summary:Andrzej primarily contributed to the GUIslice library, focusing on features related to display and touch input. They implemented dynamic screen rotation, axis swapping, and flipping capabilities for TFT displays, demonstrating a strong understanding of display driver integration. Furthermore, the user added support for touch input with the TFT eSPI driver, enabling touchscreen functionality within the GUI framework. Additionally, they addressed configuration issues by reintroducing the common configuration file.
rp2040prototypingplatformiom5stackadafruit-gfx
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