Fernando Ferreira
Principal Software Engineer (Azure Health & Life Sciences) - FHIR at Microsoft
West Palm Beach, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFernando Ferreira is a Principal Software Engineer specializing in Azure Health & Life Sciences (FHIR) with 13+ years building distributed services, web and IoT solutions at Microsoft. He combines deep backend expertise—evidenced by contributions to the microsoft/fhir-server project improving SQL search operators and robustness—with a track record of shipping production systems across Edge, Time Series Insights, and enterprise customer engagements. A former Microsoft MVP and hackathon winner, he pairs hands-on coding and research with strong public speaking, mentoring, and IP creation that sped diagnostic and performance analysis from days to minutes. Based in West Palm Beach, he holds a MSc in Information Systems and remains an avid writer and blogger, balancing technical rigor with a long-running passion for software since age 14.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Technician, Information Systems, Technician, Information Systems at Colégio Argumento ObjetivoMaster's, Information Systems, Master's, Information Systems at USP - Universidade de São PauloMackenzie Presbyterian University
English
Github Skills (13)
smart-on-fhir10
hl7-fhir10
csharp10
sql10
dotnet-core10
api-design9
restful-api9
rest-api9
asp-net9
dotnet9
api-rest9
net9
testing8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/fhir-server
Apr 2022 - Jan 2023
A service that implements the FHIR standard
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:451 reviews, 39 commits, 155 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Fernando primarily focused on enhancing the FHIR server's functionality and improving the codebase's robustness. They added support for the IN operator and corrected errors in the multiary OR operator within the SQL search query generation. Further improvements included refactoring of the SQL compartment search and fixing issues related to the :not operator. The user also worked on improvements for test execution and search capabilities.
hl7fhirazure-cosmos-dbazure-app-servicefhir-standard
FerHenrique/PantheonRepository
Mar 2013 - Sep 2013
Contributions:10 commits in 6 months
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