Juan Velarde
Quality Management Registered Nurse at Aetna, a CVS Health Company
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJuan Velarde is a Quality Management Registered Nurse with 11 years of hybrid experience bridging clinical care, health data analytics, and software quality assurance. He has led advanced medical record review for HEDIS and Stars across payer and provider settings, co-managing Cotiviti and Inovalon workflows while authoring SQL and data pipelines that support NCQA reporting. Earlier in his career he drove SQA and test automation for Puppet’s r10k deployment tooling—adding automated tests that hardened deployments—bringing DevOps rigor to healthcare analytics. Comfortable in both EPIC/Cerner EMRs and code-first toolchains (Python, Ruby, MS SQL, Tableau, Git, Jira), he routinely serves as the technical backup for data science and ETL operations. Based in Portland, OR, Juan combines bedside clinical judgment from ICU/Med-Surg experience with a proven ability to translate clinical nuance into auditable analytics and robust QA processes. He’s noted for smoothing cross-functional communication between clinicians, engineers, and analytics teams to deliver reproducible, regulatory-grade results.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
RN Re-entry Certificate, Registered Nursing/Registered Nurse, RN Re-entry Certificate, Registered Nursing/Registered Nurse at Health and Educational Consultants, Portland, ORBachelor of Science (B.S.), Registered Nursing/Registered Nurse, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Registered Nursing/Registered Nurse at D'Youville College
English, Spanish
Github Skills (9)
puppeteer10
bash10
puppet10
cicd10
test-automation10
testing10
beaker9
git9
ruby7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
puppetlabs/r10k
Feb 2015 - Mar 2015
Smarter Puppet deployment
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Test Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:29 commits, 28 PRs, 8 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Juan focused on improving the testing infrastructure and validating the r10k deployment process. They added automated tests to verify the deployment of environments with both valid and invalid configurations. Furthermore, the user revised existing tests and updated the test run scripts, ensuring comprehensive coverage of various deployment scenarios, including module updates and Forge module management. Their work directly contributed to enhancing the reliability and robustness of the r10k deployment tool.
deploymentsmarterpuppet
carlosvelarde/r10k
Feb 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:1 PR, 29 pushes, 23 branches in 1 month
deploymentsmarterpuppet
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