Dylan Mahalingam
Lead Software Engineer at MITRE
Nashua, New Hampshire, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDylan Mahalingam is a Lead Software Engineer with 8 years of professional experience building full‑stack and back‑end systems, currently leading engineering at MITRE. He has deep Ruby on Rails and FHIR interoperability experience—contributing to healthcare open source like Synthea by enhancing FHIR exports and patient identifier support—and has worked with OAuth2 and SMART-on-FHIR conformance testing. Dylan blends hands‑on engineering with product and program leadership across startups and enterprise teams (PathAI, Tidelift, MITRE), and previously founded and scaled global youth social-impact initiatives that engaged millions. Comfortable moving between low-level systems work (embedded, radio, VHDL) and web services, he brings a rare mix of humanitarian entrepreneurship and technical rigor to healthcare and public-interest technology.
8 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma Valedictorian, High School Diploma Valedictorian at Pinkerton AcademyBachelor's Degree Electrical & Computer Engineering, Bachelor's Degree Electrical & Computer Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute
English, Spanish
Github Skills (8)
smart-on-fhir10
javas10
data-mapping10
synthetic-data10
hl7-fhir10
java10
health-data10
json9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
synthetichealth/synthea
Oct 2017 - Dec 2017
Synthetic Patient Population Simulator
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:27 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Dylan primarily contributed to enhancing the FHIR export functionality of the Synthea project. They focused on adding support for various patient identifiers such as driver's license, passport number, SSN, marital status, maiden name, birth sex, and mother's name. Their commits involve modifications to the Java code within `FhirStu3.java` and `LifecycleModule.java`, demonstrating a focus on data mapping and FHIR resource creation for representing patient demographics. They also added new language support.
health-datafhirpatientsimulationsimulator
standardhealth/vscode-language-cimpl
Jun 2018 - Aug 2019
Visual Studio Code CIMPL Language Support
Contributions:20 PRs, 45 pushes, 26 branches in 1 year 2 months
visual-studio-codevscodevscode-extensionlanguage-supportvisual-studio
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