David Wire is a Principal Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building sustainable teams, resilient integrations, and user-focused front ends across startups and enterprise products. Based in Golden, Colorado, he combines hands-on React/TypeScript front-end craftsmanship with backend work in Kotlin, Python, and cloud services to ship reliable third-party integrations and medical imaging tools. A servant-leader and coach, he has grown teams, improved testing and delivery practices, and led feature design from spec to production. He’s an active contributor to medical imaging open-source projects—improving the OHIF DICOM viewer and cornerstoneTools with practical UI and eraser/magnify tool enhancements—bringing an uncommon blend of embedded-systems roots and modern web engineering to complex, regulated domains.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Engineering, BS Computer Engineering at Iowa State University
AAS Electronics Engineering Technology, AAS Electronics Engineering Technology at Hawkeye Community College
Study Abroad, Study Abroad at University of Limerick
A framework for tools built on top of Cornerstone.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:8 commits, 9 PRs, 12 comments in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:David primarily focused on implementing and enhancing image manipulation tools within the cornerstonejs/cornerstonetools repository. Their contributions include the initial implementation of an eraser tool, fixing callback issues for the magnify tool, and making modifications to the UI (example code) to integrate the new eraser tool. They also made adjustments, refactoring, and bug fixes. The user made additional improvements by making it so that only the data that is being deleted is highlighted.
OHIF zero-footprint DICOM viewer and oncology specific Lesion Tracker, plus shared extension packages
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:9 commits, 13 PRs, 8 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:David primarily focused on enhancing the front-end functionality and user experience of the OHIF viewer. Their contributions involved fixing bugs related to the IHEInvokeImageDisplay API, adding features such as QIDO style query parameters for study list filtering, and integrating new tools like ArrowAnnotate and Eraser. Furthermore, the user addressed dependency conflicts to ensure the viewer functions correctly in various deployment scenarios, particularly those where the viewer is embedded. They also updated the user interface for the ExpandableToolMenu.
nci-qintrackermedicalreactjszero-footprint
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