Helena Cdpse
Sr IT Solution Architect at Werfen
Greater Boston United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHelena Cdpse is a senior IT solution architect with 26 years of experience blending cloud, machine learning, DevSecOps, information security, and privacy to deliver enterprise-grade, hybrid-cloud solutions. She has led large teams and strategic programs at organizations including IBM, Red Hat, CVS Health, Olympus, and now Werfen, consistently translating regulatory and clinical requirements into scalable, secure platforms. Helena’s background uniquely combines deep technical roots—contributions to ICU/Unicode for platform resilience and EBCDIC compatibility—with product leadership in healthcare AI, federated data, and identity/consent services. She is known for building high-performing teams, driving ISO and compliance initiatives at scale, and turning complex integration challenges into practical, auditable outcomes. Based in Greater Boston, she also brings board-ready governance training and a track record of cost- and speed-optimizations through automation and machine learning.
26 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate, Board-Ready Bootcamp, Certificate, Board-Ready Bootcamp at Massachusetts Technical Leadership CouncilMSc, Computer Science, MSc, Computer Science at University of Massachusetts
English, Chinese, Mandarin, Japanese
Github Skills (6)
internationalization10
c-language10
character-encoding10
cprogramming-language10
unicode10
collation9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
unicode-org/icu
Sep 1999 - Jun 2003
The home of the ICU project source code.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:198 commits in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Helena's commits primarily involve modifications to the ICU (International Components for Unicode) project, specifically focusing on code related to character set conversion, resource handling, and collation. Their contributions include the implementation of a fallback mapping mechanism, fixes for OS/400 porting issues, and updates to the build process. The work suggests a focus on improving the robustness and platform compatibility of ICU's core functionality, particularly for EBCDIC-based systems.
cppc-plus-plusicu4cunicode-consortiumicu4j
helenashih/Javascript-Sandbox
Oct 2023 - Nov 2023
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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