Cody Ebberson is a seasoned software leader and entrepreneur with 12 years of experience building healthcare and cloud platforms from startup to acquisition. As Co-Founder and CTO of Medplum (YC S22), he blends hands-on backend engineering with product and compliance expertise to help teams ship secure, interoperable healthcare applications. His prior roles include engineering leadership at One Medical and Box and founding MedXT, a YC-backed RIS/PACS company acquired by Box, demonstrating repeated success commercializing healthtech. Cody is an active open-source contributor with practical reliability work in popular projects like express-rate-limit and Medplum’s FHIR server, emphasizing robust testing and graceful shutdowns. He pairs an MBA from Harvard Business School with a BS in Computer Science, enabling him to bridge technical execution and business strategy. Known for improving search, data handling, and system reliability, he brings a pragmatic focus on quality and operational resilience to complex regulated domains.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Medplum is a healthcare platform that helps you quickly develop high-quality compliant applications.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:108 releases, 2266 reviews, 1672 commits in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Cody's contributions focused on fixing bugs and enhancing the FHIR server's functionality, specifically related to search capabilities and handling of data types. They implemented solutions for finding AuditEvents by code, improving search parameter processing, and ensuring the correct handling of boolean values and empty strings. Furthermore, the user addressed issues related to date/time and reference filters, thereby refining the search capabilities within the Medplum platform.
Basic rate-limiting middleware for the Express web server
Role in this project:
Back-end & Test Automation Engineer
Contributions:2 reviews, 5 commits, 1 PR in 4 days
Contributions summary:Cody primarily contributed to the `express-rate-limit` library by implementing a shutdown method for the `MemoryStore`, allowing for the graceful termination of timers. The user also added the `shutdown` method to the `Store` interface. Furthermore, the user wrote tests for external modules and implemented additional shutdown functionality, demonstrating a focus on testing and system reliability. This included the addition of testing frameworks, indicating a strong focus on quality assurance.
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