Jake Smolka
Senior Backend Developer at openEHR
Brunswick, Lower Saxony, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolJake Smolka is a Senior Backend Developer with eight years of experience building interoperable health informatics systems, specializing in openEHR, Java and Spring Boot. He has driven open-source projects like EHRbase that underpin Germany’s national Covid-19 research network and currently contributes to the openEHR Specification as an SEC Expert. Jake designed and implemented bi-directional mapping between openEHR and FHIR at Better, demonstrating strength in pragmatic architecture and standards translation. Comfortable in global, fully remote teams, he combines academic rigor (MSc in Computer Science) with hands-on systems work from embedded C to cloud-native backends. He’s passionate about open standards and has a track record of turning complex clinical requirements into reusable, auditable software.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University at AlbanyMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Leipzig UniversityBachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Technische Universität Braunschweig
German, English
Github Skills (124)
cdr10
sdk10
java10
spring-boot10
spring10
openehr10
docker-compose9
cli9
testing9
spring-security9
junit9
integration-testing9
command-line-tool9
cinnamon9
binaries9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
jakesmolka/jakesmolka
Apr 2021 - Feb 2024
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
jakesmolka/api-to-go
Sep 2017 - Jan 2019
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch, 1 comment in 1 year 4 months
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