Summary
Kent Braaten is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of professional experience and a longer track record of enterprise-scale development spanning McKesson, Change Healthcare, and currently Surescripts. He specializes in solving complex problems and accelerating reliable software delivery, with hands-on leadership building real-time decision support like Change Healthcare’s Executive Capacity Management Dashboard. Based in Burnsville, Minnesota, he combines solid academic foundations (MS in Computer Science) with deep practical experience in healthcare IT and operational tooling. Known for pragmatic engineering that balances speed and reliability, he often focuses on turning messy operational data into actionable, production-grade systems.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at North Dakota State University
BA, Computer Science, Math, BA, Computer Science, Math at Concordia College