Gajen Sunthara
CPTO, Tech Co-Founder at SimpliFed
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolGajen Sunthara is a healthcare-focused technology founder and executive who blends public-sector impact with startup scale, currently serving as CPTO and tech co-founder at SimpliFed and founder/key shareholder of 1upHealth, a FHIR platform that raised $74.5M and won multiple federal awards. A former Presidential Innovation Fellow and U.S. Digital Service alum, he helped architect national healthcare interoperability efforts for the Precision Medicine Initiative and EHR modernization across VA and DoD. He spent two decades at Boston Children’s Hospital building and integrating Epic and Cerner systems, evolving from lab technologist to principal software architect and innovation R&D leader. Gajen’s strengths are at the intersection of clinical workflow design, open standards (FHIR/SMART), and scalable platform architecture—translating complex clinical needs into production-ready APIs and products. He advises Harvard Medical School’s primary care innovation program and several startups, bringing uncommon depth in both federal health IT policy and hands-on EHR engineering.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Winchester High SchoolMasters in Information Technology, Computer Science, Masters in Information Technology, Computer Science at Harvard UniversityBachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at Wentworth Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (67)
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amazon-web-services9
passwords9
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application-server8
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Github contributions (5)
gajen0981/FHIR-Server
May 2015 - Jul 2017
Contributions:37 commits, 36 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
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gajen0981/CHPL-OpenAPI
Jan 2015 - Nov 2019
Contributions:18 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 10 months
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