Karl Naden
Principal at J2 Interactive
Fayston, Vermont, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKarl Naden is a Principal software engineer with 14 years focused on health IT, building maintainable data feeds that improve communication between digital health systems to drive better patient and provider outcomes. He combines advanced technical training (MS in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon) with hands-on experience across organizations from Epic to MITRE and independent consulting at J2 Interactive, translating complex interoperability requirements into practical, auditable software. Karl’s work emphasizes reliability and long-term maintainability of interfaces—treating communication itself as a core clinical asset rather than a disposable integration. Based in Fayston, Vermont, he brings a systems-thinking approach and a research-informed perspective to applied engineering, often finding pragmatic ways to bridge clinical needs and developer workflows.
14 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Seattle PrepMS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon UniversityBA, Math and History, BA, Math and History at Williams College
Github Skills (25)
jira10
smart-on-fhir10
lists9
artifacts9
health-data9
hl79
inferno8
core-library8
testing7
ruby7
api7
health6
docker5
exchange4
validating4
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
inferno-framework/subscriptions-test-kit
Oct 2024 - Apr 2025
Inferno Test Kit for FHIR R5-style Subscriptions
Contributions:3 releases, 23 reviews, 15 PRs in 5 months
paciowg/sample-data
Mar 2022 - May 2022
Contributions:45 commits, 21 pushes in 1 month
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