Summary
Dylan Klomparens is a Principal Software Engineer, CTO, and co-founder with nine years of focused experience building secure, scalable platforms for healthcare, scientific research, and other data-sensitive domains. He combines hands-on engineering—real-time data pipelines, Kafka, Snowflake, containerized CI/CD—with strategic architecture work at organizations like NIH, NIST, and X-energy to modernize legacy systems and cut operational costs. Dylan prefers pragmatic, open solutions over costly proprietary stacks, having designed replacements projected to save hundreds of thousands per site and consolidated tooling to eliminate over $500K in annual licenses. He’s equally comfortable translating technical tradeoffs for stakeholders and mentoring junior engineers to build long-lived engineering habits. Currently leading WellShift to reduce nurse fatigue via pluggable EMR integrations, he pursues mission-aligned roles in health tech, scientific platforms, and clean energy where security and usability are foundational. An underrated strength is his consistent focus on operational risk and compliance—embedding privacy, FAIR/FHIR principles, and deployable DevOps practices early in design.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science Computer Engineering, Master of Science Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech