Dixon Whitmire
South Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolDixon Whitmire is a Senior Cloud Architect with 8+ years of focused experience designing and implementing scalable, secure backend systems across cloud platforms and healthcare domains. A hands-on architect and former early engineering hire at PokitDok, he helped build an API platform that led to a successful exit and has since modernized legacy ETL and indexing pipelines at enterprises like Merative, Covera Health, and IBM. He codes comfortably in Python, Go, Java, and C#, authors cloud integration libraries (AWS→Azure) and real-time indexers for millions of radiology studies, and applies AI tooling to accelerate development and code review. An active open-source contributor, Dixon has materially improved OpenEMR’s FHIR integrations and co-created LinuxForHealth projects, highlighting his interoperability and healthcare-data expertise. Based in South Carolina, he blends pragmatic engineering, team leadership, and architectural vision—plus a penchant for whimsical profile photos (bear and popcorn included).
8 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) English Religion, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) English Religion at Wofford College
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Github Skills (11)
smart-on-fhir10
php10
hl7-fhir10
api-design10
testing9
emr9
back-end-development8
medical8
ehealth8
health8
mysql7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
openemr/openemr
Apr 2020 - May 2020
The most popular open source electronic health records and medical practice management solution.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 11 PRs, 124 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Dixon made significant contributions to the OpenEMR project's backend functionality, specifically within the PatientService and FHIR integration components. These contributions included enhancements to API responses, updates to validation rules, and the creation of test fixtures for both unit and API tests. The user also worked on integrating FHIR standards into the project's patient data handling, demonstrating expertise in healthcare data interoperability. These efforts aimed to improve the robustness and functionality of the OpenEMR system.
emrfhirelectronicmedicalelectronic-health-records
LinuxForHealth/images
Jun 2020 - Nov 2021
Linux For Health Container Images
Contributions:6 releases, 4 reviews, 39 commits in 1 year 4 months
containershealthlinuxdockercontainer-images
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