Jacob Geer
Software Engineer at Nationwide
Des Moines, Iowa, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolJacob Geer is a software engineer with eight years of experience building and supporting enterprise applications across insurance, food production, and telecom domains. He excels at diving deep into project domains, learning independently to become the go-to expert for requirements, implementation, and production support. At Nationwide and previous employers he has driven full lifecycle changes and been primary support for internal systems, including work tied to regulatory compliance and risk tracking. Jacob contributes to open-source tooling—improving exporters in the widely used Synthea synthetic patient simulator to ensure robust UTF-8 data output—reflecting attention to data compatibility and real-world interoperability. Based in Des Moines, he pairs pragmatic engineering with strong user communication, making him effective at translating business needs into reliable software.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Wartburg CollegeHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Nashua-Plainfield High School
English, Spanish
Github Skills (7)
javas10
csv-export10
java10
data-format9
data-formats9
hl7-fhir8
smart-on-fhir8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
synthetichealth/synthea
Feb 2020 - Feb 2020
Synthetic Patient Population Simulator
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 3 PRs, 4 comments in 13 days
Contributions summary:Jacob's contributions primarily involve enhancing the CDW and CSV exporters. The user modified the code to incorporate a new encoding property, defaulting to UTF-8, in these exporters. These changes indicate a focus on data formatting and output, likely to ensure compatibility and proper handling of diverse character sets within the synthetic patient data. The user also made some JavaDoc and filewriter replacing improvements.
health-datafhirpatientsimulationsimulator
CMSgov/bluebutton-data-server
Jan 2018 - Aug 2019
Deprecated. Migrated into monorepo: https://github.com/CMSgov/beneficiary-fhir-data
Contributions:184 commits, 64 PRs, 194 pushes in 1 year 7 months
monorepo
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