Elena Fowler
Software Engineer at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolElena Fowler is a software engineer at Microsoft with eight years of hands-on experience building backend services and developer-facing tooling. A Cal Poly Software Engineering graduate and former Hack4Impact National Director, she blends production engineering with a strong commitment to tech-for-good, having led and delivered multiple nonprofit projects and served as tech lead for ECOSLO. Her internships at LinkedIn and Amazon involved building internal APIs and AWS-backed services that improved operational efficiency and cross-team troubleshooting. On GitHub she has contributed backend improvements to FEMR, an EMR tailored for low-resource settings, demonstrating a focus on reliable data retrieval and patient matching in healthcare applications. Based in Seattle, she’s driven by continuous learning and by applying engineering skills to projects with social impact.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis ObispoHigh School, High School at Holy Names Academy
Github Skills (8)
algorithm10
javas10
algorithms10
sql10
java10
spring-boot9
database-design9
configuration-management8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
FEMR/femr
Apr 2021 - May 2021
A simple and fast EMR system used in low resource settings.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Elena primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the EMR system. They focused on refining patient matching queries within the `PatientRepository`, including age-based constraints and moving configuration values. Furthermore, the user made modifications to the `SearchService` class, refactoring and fixing search bar functionality to allow searches by name and phone number. These changes suggest a focus on improving data retrieval and patient search capabilities within the application.
low-resourcesettingsemr
hack4impact-calpoly/EcosloDataApp
Nov 2019 - Jul 2020
Contributions:114 PRs, 190 pushes, 6 branches in 8 months
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