Dunmail Hodkinson
Chief Technology Officer at Black Pear Software Ltd
Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDunmail Hodkinson is a Chief Technology Officer with over a decade of hands-on experience designing interoperable, mobile-first health IT systems and leading Black Pear Software’s technical strategy. With a background in research science and a PhD in plant dispersal, he pivoted into health informatics and has spent 20+ years solving complex data integration challenges across primary care and national reporting programs. He architected solutions to extract and aggregate distributed clinical data at Apollo Medical Systems and has a long track record of advocating standards-based interoperability as Chair and Immediate Past Chair of HL7 UK. Dunmail combines pragmatic engineering—spanning mHealth, integration platforms and process improvement—with governance and community leadership, including work on open-source NHS interfaces. Based in Newcastle, he also brings practical product delivery experience from founding web consultancy Stanegate and hands-on roles in emergency care tech, showing an unusual blend of research rigour and operational focus.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
PG Cert Computing Computing, PG Cert Computing Computing at The Open UniversityBSc Biological Sciences, BSc Biological Sciences at Durham UniversityPhD Plant Dispersal : Vectors and tradeoffs, PhD Plant Dispersal : Vectors and tradeoffs at The University of Sheffield
Github Skills (58)
expressjs10
express-router10
router9
nodejs9
mongodb9
typescript8
hl77
postman6
shorthand6
ajv6
templating-engine6
api6
specification6
gpconnect6
api-platform6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
BlackPearSw/fhir-schema-dstu2
Sep 2015 - Aug 2019
Contributions:66 commits, 39 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years
BlackPearSw/obfuscated-querystring
Aug 2018 - Apr 2022
Contributions:2 reviews, 8 PRs, 11 pushes in 3 years 8 months
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