Jay Kola
Chief Executive Officer at Termlex
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJay Kola is a medical informatician and CEO with 11+ years’ experience bridging clinical practice, biomedical ontologies and software engineering to drive national EHR and terminology initiatives across the UK, Sweden and Singapore. A former qualified physician with an MSc in Bioinformatics, he specializes in SNOMED CT, OWL/Description Logic and practical implementations that make complex terminologies usable in production systems. He founded Noesis Informatica and now leads Termlex, while previously steering terminology strategy at NHS Digital and serving on multiple IHTSDO committees, including chairing the SNOMED CT Implementation SIG. As a hands-on developer he built tooling such as Snolex (an online SNOMED CT browser and refset manager) and Snofyre (a Java API for SNOMED-enabled apps), demonstrating both product and engineering leadership. His recent work on synthetic patient records shows a rare combination of formal knowledge representation and pragmatic queryable data engineering. Based in London, he focuses on practical interoperability—turning ontology rigor into usable clinical data solutions.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Bioinformatics, MSc, Bioinformatics at University of WestminsterMBBS, Medicine, MBBS, Medicine at JIPMER, Pondicherry
Github Skills (29)
quality-assurance10
testing9
autoscaling9
snomed-ct9
cdr8
api6
openehr6
tcp5
jax-rs5
tyk4
go4
health-informatics4
rest4
api-gateway4
microservices4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
AppertaFoundation/Code4Health-Platform
Feb 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:94 commits, 29 pushes, 2 branches in 5 months
termlex/snofyre
Jun 2016 - Mar 2022
Contributions:3 pushes in 5 years 10 months
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