Karl Davis
Chief Technology Officer And Senior Technical Advisor at Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Cockeysville, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolKarl Davis is a seasoned software leader with 16 years of experience modernizing large-scale government systems, currently serving as CTO and Senior Technical Advisor at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. He leads engineering efforts to overhaul the world's largest claims processing system—managing systems that facilitate roughly $400 billion in annual healthcare payments—and previously drove the open-source Blue Button FHIR server and a 10+ TB data pipeline in AWS. Karl combines hands-on development across Java, Rust, and cloud-native DevOps tooling (Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins) with proven program leadership in both federal and commercial contexts. His background includes delivering mission-critical components at IBM and leading R&D projects for the Navy, demonstrating an ability to translate complex requirements into scalable, auditable solutions. Based in Cockeysville, MD, he’s equally comfortable writing low-level integrations and shaping cross-functional teams and agile practices. A Computer Science graduate from the University of Arizona, he brings a pragmatic blend of technical depth and public-sector delivery experience.
16 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Arizona
Stackoverflow
606reputation
29kreached
15answers
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Github Skills (200)
python10
automation10
hl710
ansible-role10
ssh10
network-configuration10
hapi10
api10
ansible10
hl7-fhir10
java10
hapi-fhir10
data-api10
mhealth10
player10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
CMSgov/bluebutton-data-server-perf-tests
Mar 2016 - Dec 2018
A set of stress tests for FHIR servers.
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch, 49 comments in 2 years 9 months
stress-testingperformance-analysisfhirloadtesting
CMSgov/bluebutton-ansible-playbooks-data-sandbox
Jan 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:13 PRs, 24 pushes, 16 branches in 1 year 2 months
apiblueapi-ssandboxbutton
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