Andy Fragen
Trauma Acute Care Surgeon at Git Updater
Palm Springs, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndy Fragen is a trauma and acute care surgeon with 14+ years of clinical experience leading trauma services across Southern California, currently practicing at Dignity Health, St. Francis Medical Center, and Desert Trauma Surgeons. Alongside a long surgical career and leadership roles in medical informatics and hospital administration, he writes production-grade software—maintaining the Git Updater project and contributing back-end fixes to widely used WordPress projects like The Events Calendar and Pods. He blends high-pressure decision-making in the OR with hands-on DevOps and back-end development skills, shipping updates that improve plugin security, deployment, and update workflows. His work on Homebrew casks and cross-repo collaboration shows an eye for reproducible, package-level tooling beyond typical clinician-developer hobby projects. Trained at Saint Louis University and with surgical residencies at University of Florida and UMKC, he pairs deep clinical expertise with practical engineering craftsmanship. That uncommon mix of trauma surgery leadership and sustained open-source contribution makes him adept at translating complex, safety-critical requirements into reliable technical solutions.
14 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Biology, General, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Biology, General at Northwestern UniversityGeneral Surgery Residency Program, General Surgery Residency Program at University of Missouri-Kansas City School of MedicineGeneral Surgery Residency Program, General Surgery Residency Program at University of Florida, JacksonvilleDoctor of Medicine - MD, Medicine, Doctor of Medicine - MD, Medicine at Saint Louis University School of Medicine
Github Skills (29)
apidoc10
plugin-development10
wordpress10
homebrew-cask10
ruby10
pods10
homebrew10
php10
custom-fields10
api10
content-type10
wordpress-plugin10
version-control10
software-packaging10
wordpress-themes9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
afragen/git-updater
Jul 2013 - Jan 2023
This WP plugin will update GitHub, Bitbucket, GitLab, and Gitea hosted plugins and themes
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:52 releases, 7 reviews, 4658 commits in 9 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Andy primarily focused on back-end development within this WordPress plugin. They implemented core settings functionality and updated various parts of the codebase. Additionally, they worked on managing the plugin's dependencies and updating its code structure, including testing and deployment, which suggests some involvement with DevOps practices.
bitbucketgiteagitlabwordpress-pluginwordpress-theme
the-events-calendar/the-events-calendar
Apr 2014 - Feb 2019
The Events Calendar WordPress plugin
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 commits, 10 PRs, 39 comments in 4 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Andy primarily contributed to bug fixes and code improvements within the WordPress plugin. Their work included resolving issues in event display, correcting incorrect variable usage, and escaping output for security. The user also addressed Jenkins build issues, likely related to code style or testing, by modifying code to meet the build requirements. Furthermore, the user addressed several typos within the code.
wordpress-pluginthe-events-calendarwordpress
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