Deborah Shapiro
Senior Informatics Consultant
Oakland, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDeborah Shapiro is a Senior Informatics Consultant with over two decades of hands-on software development focused on medical terminologies, and 11 years in concentrated informatics roles supporting U.S. and international healthcare clients. She holds an MSE in Computer & Information Science from the University of Pennsylvania and has built robust tooling and servers for SNOMED CT, NCI, the VA, and the NLM, including TermHub and the MEME5 terminology server. Her expertise spans SNOMED, ICD-10, LOINC, RxNorm and the UMLS, and she blends backend systems, FHIR APIs, and Angular front-ends to deliver integrated terminology management and mapping solutions. Often trusted for production releases and complex imports, she is known for automating validation and QA workflows that keep large clinical vocabularies consistent and up to date. Based in Oakland, she combines deep domain knowledge with practical engineering—turning ontologies and code systems into reliable, auditable services used by terminology authors and translators.
11 years of coding experience
MSE, Computer & Information Science, MSE, Computer & Information Science at University of Pennsylvania
Github Skills (11)
jython10
publish10
internals10
terminology10
snomed-ct10
elasticsearch9
scalable8
reporter7
sparql4
rdf4
memgraph3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
NCIEVS/ops-cdisc-reports
Apr 2022 - Sep 2024
Contributions:1 review, 30 PRs, 36 pushes in 2 years 5 months
cdiscreport
NCIEVS/nci-meme5
Jun 2024 - Feb 2025
UMLS Terminology Server
Contributions:32 pushes, 2 branches, 6 tags in 7 months
terminology-serverterminologyumls
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