Joe Mesterhazy
Manager, Big Data Engineering
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoe Mesterhazy is a seasoned big data and healthcare IT leader with 25+ years of systems and software experience, now managing Big Data Engineering for Stanford Health Care to enable petabyte-scale clinical research and imaging workflows. He blends hands-on development (C#, Java, Linux/Windows servers) with infrastructure expertise from running large Unix deployments and a 2048-node BlueGene/L cluster to architect scalable, cloud-forward research data commons. Joe has built production clinical applications and HL7/DICOM integrations used directly in patient care at UCSF and ZSFG, giving him a practical appreciation for operational reliability and clinical impact. He favors vendor-agnostic, pragmatic solutions that improve workflow integration while maintaining high standards for patient safety and data governance. Based in Palo Alto, he combines deep ops experience with a research-focused mindset that bridges academic, hospital, and enterprise environments.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Iowa State University
Github Skills (127)
python10
infrastructure10
pipeline10
relational-databases10
java10
relational9
prefect9
thin9
sql9
database9
dataflow9
automation9
orchestration9
data-science9
database-access9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
susom/wdl-kit
Jun 2022 - Mar 2024
A WDL toolkit with a focus on ETL and Cloud integration
Contributions:1 release, 29 reviews, 55 PRs in 1 year 9 months
wdletlcloud-integration
susom/db-to-avro
Oct 2021 - Mar 2024
A high-performance database dumping application
Contributions:1 review, 3 PRs, 5 pushes in 2 years 5 months
performancedatabasedumpinghigh-performance
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