Brandon Ulrich
Director, Ontology Platform
Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolBrandon Ulrich is a seasoned technology entrepreneur and leader who has spent two decades founding and scaling global software firms, now directing IQVIA’s Ontology Platform within the Center for Health Data Semantics. He built and commercialized Snow Owl, a healthcare terminology and analytics platform deployed in over 3,000 sites across 85 countries, and guided its integration into IQVIA after acquisition. His work sits at the intersection of clinical knowledge representation, ontology engineering, and applied AI, informing industry strategy through roles with SNOMED International and as Non-Executive Chairman of B2i. Based in Germany, he combines hands-on product creation with strategic vision, shaping platforms that operate on billions of health records. He also donates pro bono consulting to international healthcare non-profits, reflecting a commitment to public-good applications of health data. Known for turning complex clinical standards into practical, scalable tooling, he brings rare domain expertise in both semantics and commercial delivery.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Information Systems, Bachelor of Science, Computer Information Systems at Arizona State UniversityMaster of Science, Business Informatics, Master of Science, Business Informatics at European-University Viadrina
Github Skills (31)
javascript10
snow10
ontology10
terminology10
depth-camera10
java10
knowledge-graph10
icd10
elasticsearch10
nodejs10
owl10
nlp10
snomed-ct10
scalable10
react10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
bulrich/datasciencecoursera
Jun 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
b2ihealthcare/snow-owl
Jan 2015 - Apr 2020
:owl: Snow Owl Terminology Server - a production-ready, scalable, FHIR Terminology Service compliant server that supports SNOMED CT International and Extensions, LOINC, RxNorm, UMLS, ICD-10, custom code systems and many others
Contributions:63 commits, 26 pushes, 9 comments in 5 years 3 months
fhirproduction-readyhpoextensionsicd
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