Fauze Polpeta
Chief Technology Officer at Purview
Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolFauze Polpeta is a Chief Technology Officer with 11+ years of experience building and scaling product and engineering teams focused on healthcare and medical device software. He architects cloud platforms for capture, organization and presentation of medical records, and has driven UX maturity initiatives that improved portfolio innovation and time-to-market across cross-cultural teams. He maps regulatory requirements (ISO 13485, ISO 14971, IEC 62304) into practical software practices to enable CE, FDA and ANVISA certifications, and led the architecture of an image-guided neurosurgery system used in clinical practice. An active open-source contributor, he is technical curator and back-end maintainer for the well-known Horos medical image viewer and led additions like JPEG-LS decoding and DICOM import fixes. Based in Florianópolis with a background spanning embedded systems to cloud-native healthcare platforms, he combines hands-on engineering with regulatory and product leadership. An often overlooked strength is his track record of translating surgical-grade clinical workflows into production-ready, auditable software systems.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Bachelor at Universidade Federal de Santa CatarinaMSc. Internship, MSc. Internship at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-NürnbergMaster in Business Administration (M.B.A.), Master in Business Administration (M.B.A.) at FGVTechnician, Technician at Fundação Bradesco - Campinas - SP
French, Portuguese, Spanish, English
Github Skills (6)
medical-imaging10
dicom10
cprogramming-language9
jpeg9
c-language9
image-processing8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
horosproject/horos
Mar 2015 - Nov 2020
Horos™ is a free, open source medical image viewer. The goal of the Horos Project is to develop a fully functional, 64-bit medical image viewer for OS X. Horos is based upon OsiriX and other open source medical imaging libraries. Horos is made freely available under the GNU Lesser General Public License, Version 3 (LGPL-3.0). Horos is linked against the Grok JPEG 2000 library, for fast viewing of JPEG 2000 images. This library is licensed under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:41 releases, 560 commits, 156 PRs in 5 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Fauze primarily focused on improving the Horos medical image viewer by addressing bugs related to DICOM files and image display. Their work involved modifications to the DCM framework, specifically fixing issues with annotations, DICOM tags, and import processes for zipped archives. They also added support for JPEG-LS decoding and made build system refactoring updates.
medical-imagegoalimaginggnubit
horosproject/horosplugins
Apr 2016 - Sep 2018
Plugins for the Horos Viewer
Contributions:9 commits, 4 PRs, 7 pushes in 2 years 5 months
viewerplugin
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.