Brian Cragun
Senior Software Engineer - Web Full-Stack Development At Merative
Salt Lake City Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolBrian Cragun is a senior full-stack software engineer based in the Salt Lake City area, currently building scalable web solutions and healthcare data pipelines at Merative. He brings decades of engineering experience spanning front-end UI leadership, backend data processing, and accessibility advocacy, with deep expertise in Java, Python, React, NiFi, and healthcare standards like HL7-to-FHIR conversion. At IBM he led teams, chaired invention reviews, and amassed a prolific patent record, mentoring dozens of inventors while driving product and accessibility initiatives across many divisions. Recent work focuses on medical record processing, complex FHIR JSON tooling, and automated analytics pipelines, blending practical engineering with data-centric problem solving. He pairs hands-on coding and open-source contributions with systems thinking developed over a long career in enterprise and research collaborations. An often-overlooked strength is his track record of turning accessibility and user-interface research into production-ready, standards-compliant software.
8 years of coding experience
39 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Utah State UniversityMSMSE, Manufacturing Systems Engineering, MSMSE, Manufacturing Systems Engineering at University of Wisconsin-Madison
English, Danish
Stackoverflow
750reputation
247kreached
7answers
6questions
Github Skills (71)
hl710
hl7v210
converter10
javascript9
react9
grav8
grav-plugin8
csv-import8
carbon-design-system8
testing7
csv-parsing7
markdown7
yaml7
csv-parser7
doctrine7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
LinuxForHealth/hl7v2-fhir-converter
Jun 2021 - Aug 2022
Converts HL7 v2 Messages to FHIR Resources
Contributions:486 reviews, 450 commits, 213 PRs in 1 year 2 months
hl7hl7v2fhirhl7v2-fhir-converterfhir-resources
cragun47/carbon-tutorial
May 2019 - Jul 2019
An app for the Carbon Design System tutorial
Contributions:5 pushes in 1 month
carbonreactdesign-systemcarbon-design-system
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