Frank Tao
Software Engineer at Google
Fremont, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarFrank Tao is a software engineer with 8 years of experience, currently working at Google out of Fremont, California. He focuses on backend performance and reliability, with notable open-source contributions to the widely used HAPI FHIR Java API where he optimized tag loading, resource indexing, and multi-version ConceptMap support. Frank has a practical knack for improving SQL queries and preloading strategies to reduce latency in large healthcare data systems. He combines production-grade engineering at a major tech company with steady community impact through thoughtful test coverage and bug fixes. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic optimizer who seeks measurable improvements rather than speculative rewrites.
7 years of coding experience
Github Skills (15)
smart-on-fhir10
javas10
hl7-fhir10
sql10
java10
apidoc9
performance-optimization9
api9
databases8
testing8
database8
medical8
ehealth8
health8
hapi-fhir7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
hapifhir/hapi-fhir
May 2018 - Sep 2021
🔥 HAPI FHIR - Java API for HL7 FHIR Clients and Servers
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:60 reviews, 87 commits, 49 PRs in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Frank primarily focused on improving the performance of the HAPI FHIR Java API, specifically related to tag loading and resource indexing. This included optimizing the loading of tags, preloading resource histories based on PIDs, and improving the SQL query. Furthermore, the user worked on the ConceptMap feature by adding multi-version support and fixing several related issues. The user also contributed to the test cases by adding several scenarios and cases to improve code coverage.
hl7-fhirapihapihl7apps
frankjtao/hapi-fhir
Nov 2018 - Dec 2018
HAPI FHIR - Java API for HL7 FHIR Clients and Servers
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
hl7-fhirapihapihl7hapi-fhir
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