Clayton Bodendein is a detail-oriented senior software engineer with nearly a decade of hands-on experience building and maintaining full-stack systems, currently driving engineering work at Advarra in the Greater Madison area. He has a strong backend focus evidenced by meaningful open-source contributions to the widely-used HAPI FHIR Java APIāfixing conformance and versioning bugs, expanding FHIR version support, and improving test coverage. Clayton moved up through roles at Forte Research Systems into senior engineering after its acquisition by Advarra, and also spent time at Exact Sciences, showing adaptability across regulated, healthcare-adjacent domains. He pairs practical production experience with disciplined QA engineering and a knack for making interoperability work reliably in complex systems. A University of Wisconsin-Platteville computer science graduate, he brings steady delivery, attention to edge cases, and a bias toward shipping well-tested solutions.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-Platteville
Associate of Arts and Sciences (AAS), Associate of Arts and Sciences (AAS) at University of Wisconsin Colleges
š„ HAPI FHIR - Java API for HL7 FHIR Clients and Servers
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & QA Engineer
Contributions:22 commits, 11 PRs, 10 comments in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Clayton primarily focused on enhancing the HAPI FHIR Java API. They fixed bugs related to server conformance validation and FHIR version string checking within the `RestfulClientFactory`. The user implemented and refactored unit tests to ensure the correct behavior of the API when interacting with servers using different FHIR versions, and also added support for DSTU2.1 and R4 versions. Furthermore, the user contributed to the copy functionality of DomainResource and BackboneElement subclasses to copy the Resource's ID.
Contributions:1 PR, 78 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 4 months
hapifhir-clienthapi-fhirfhir
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Clayton Bodendein - Senior Software Engineer at Advarra