Herman Muhereza
Digital Health Software Developer at University of Washington Department of Global Health
Kampala, Central Region, Uganda
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Top SchoolHerman Muhereza is a Digital Health Software Developer with seven years of experience building interoperable, scalable health systems for low- and middle-income settings. He contributes to major open-source platforms like OpenMRS, OpenELIS Global, and OpenCR, with notable backend work such as migrating OpenMRS core from Hibernate to JPA and implementing FHIR PATCH operations. Herman specializes in backend engineering, system integration, containerized deployments, and lab–EMR and client-registry interoperability, focusing on real-world clinical workflows and data exchange. He has supported national and international implementations—from Community Health Toolkit deployments to OpenELIS and OpenCR integrations across multiple countries—and partners closely with clinical stakeholders like the ICRC. Equally comfortable refactoring legacy stacks and designing SDK tooling, he prioritizes clean architecture, open standards, and security-conscious code. Based in Kampala, he pairs hands-on engineering with a growing leadership focus aimed at sustainable digital health infrastructure.
7 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering at Bugema University
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Github Skills (11)
javas10
hibernate10
jpa10
openmrs10
java10
health9
ehealth9
srecord9
medical9
mx-record9
watch-service6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
openmrs/openmrs-core
Jan 2019 - Feb 2025
OpenMRS API and web application code
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:28 reviews, 12 PRs, 52 comments in 6 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Herman primarily contributed to the migration of the OpenMRS core project from Hibernate mappings to JPA annotations. This involved substantial code changes across multiple Java files, particularly within the `api` and `test` directories, impacting core data models like `Location`, `PersonAddress`, and `PersonAttributeType`. These changes likely involved refactoring and updating database interactions and object-relational mapping strategies. Additionally, the user worked on refactoring and updating database interactions and object-relational mapping strategies.
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mherman22/OpenELIS-Global-2
Jan 2024 - Mar 2025
OpenELIS 2.X is a rewrite of the original OpenELIS global with updated components and technology
Contributions:230 pushes, 39 branches in 1 year 2 months
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