Brandon Istenes
Frontend Engineering Mentor at OpenMRS
City of Kingston, New York, United States
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Top SchoolBrandon Istenes is a frontend engineering mentor and economist with 13 years of experience building and guiding teams on complex web and health-record systems. He blends formal economics training and data analysis with hands-on software work—publishing data-driven housing research and interactive visualizations while contributing significant front-end and full-stack features to the OpenMRS ecosystem. At OpenMRS and Partners In Health he focused on pragmatic, user-centered EMR interfaces and configuration libraries using React and TypeScript, and has led prototyping and consulting engagements that bridge product, policy, and implementation. Comfortable across code, data, and policy, he also explores feminist economics and microsimulation, bringing quantitative rigor and domain empathy to technical decisions.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Economics, Master of Science - MS, Economics at Levy Economics Institute Graduate Programs in Economic Theory and PolicyUniversity of California Santa Cruz
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Github Skills (37)
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javascript10
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configuration-management10
responsive-design10
typescript10
microfrontend10
java10
smart-on-fhir10
javas10
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Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
openmrs/openmrs-esm-core
Oct 2019 - Aug 2022
The core modules of the OpenMRS 3.0 Frontend system
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:10 releases, 423 reviews, 334 commits in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Brandon primarily contributed to the OpenMRS 3.0 Frontend system, working on core module configuration. Their work involved refactoring and building a configuration library, implementing features such as nested config properties, array support, and validation. The user also integrated the library with a React-based user interface using React hooks.
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openmrs/openmrs-esm-patient-chart
May 2020 - Nov 2022
This repo houses all EMR patient chart components for OpenMRS v3
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 496 reviews, 52 commits in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Brandon primarily focused on implementing and configuring patient chart components for the OpenMRS v3 platform, utilizing React and TypeScript. Their contributions included creating configurations for vital signs, height, and weight widgets. They also updated the configuration schema and made changes to the dashboard component, adding extension slots. Furthermore, the user worked on adapting to API changes in the esm-framework.
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