Brendan Kowitz
Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolBrendan Kowitz is a Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft with 11 years of experience building and leading teams around .NET-based cloud services, currently steering the FHIR Server for Azure. He blends hands-on back-end development in C# and ASP.NET MVC with strategic leadership, having contributed directly to the microsoft/fhir-server open-source project by modernizing FHIR data store codepaths and improving error handling for distributed stores. Based in Redmond, he draws on a Master’s in Project Management to align delivery, technical debt reduction, and cross-team collaboration. Brendan’s career traces a steady progression from developer to principal manager, giving him a pragmatic view of both code-level refactors and product-scale operational concerns. Notably, he has driven migration efforts away from legacy STU3 FHIR implementations, helping position Azure’s FHIR offering for current standards and scale.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Information Environments, Design & IT, Information Environments, Design & IT at The University of QueenslandMPRM, Master of Project Management (Leadership), MPRM, Master of Project Management (Leadership) at University of Southern Queensland
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Github Skills (16)
net10
asp-net10
dotnet10
csharp10
back-end-development10
dotnet-core10
cosmosdb9
ajax9
sql8
authentication6
user-control6
javascript6
nhibernate6
ioc-container6
utc6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/fhir-server
Sep 2018 - Jan 2023
A service that implements the FHIR standard
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1140 reviews, 245 commits, 730 PRs in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Brendan primarily contributed to back-end functionality, focusing on the implementation of FHIR standards. Their work involved refactoring code, moving functionality between core modules, and removing code from a CosmosDB provider, particularly those related to the older Stu3 FHIR version. They also made changes to the data store, including improving the handling of error conditions such as request rate exceeded exceptions.
hl7fhirazure-cosmos-dbazure-app-servicefhir-standard
brendankowitz/azure-docs
Feb 2019 - Mar 2025
Open source documentation of Microsoft Azure
Contributions:2 PRs, 11 pushes, 5 branches in 6 years 2 months
azuremicrosoft-azuremicrosoft
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