Craig Mcclendon
Software Platforms Engineering Associate Director
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCraig Mcclendon is a strategic software platforms leader with over two decades of engineering experience and 11 years in senior leadership roles at Accenture, currently serving as Associate Director for Software Platforms Engineering in Austin. He combines deep Java and database roots from early-career work with modern platform and product engineering practices, driving scalable, reliable systems across large enterprise engagements. Craig pairs hands-on contributions to open-source projects—such as improving resilience and configurability in the HAPI FHIR JPA server starter—with senior leadership in digital products and application development. Known for translating complex technical requirements into pragmatic architectures, he emphasizes robustness, observability, and configurability in platform design. Colleagues value his blend of technical craftsmanship and strategic delivery focus, and his background suggests a pragmatic appetite for tackling thorny integration and versioning challenges in healthcare and other regulated domains.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin
Github Skills (13)
smart-on-fhir10
javas10
api-rest10
rest-api10
hapi-fhir10
hl7-fhir10
api-design10
restful-api10
java10
spring-boot10
testing9
configuration-management9
github5
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
hapifhir/hapi-fhir-jpaserver-starter
Mar 2022 - Dec 2022
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 3 commits, 10 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Craig primarily focused on enhancing the HAPI FHIR JPA Server Starter project. Their work included implementing features to allow custom interceptors to be registered through properties, improving the configuration of Implementation Guides, and adding functionality to retry version conflict errors. They also contributed to test improvements, particularly for CDS hooks testing, and added a diff provider for the FHIR API. This indicates a strong focus on extending the server's capabilities and improving its robustness.
XcrigX/hapi-fhir-jpaserver-starter
Apr 2022 - Mar 2025
Contributions:1 PR, 32 pushes, 61 branches in 2 years 11 months
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