Kevin Olbrich
Principal Engineer at Healthie
Cary, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Olbrich is a Principal Engineer with 17 years of software experience and over a decade building SaaS solutions across oncology, healthcare, and cloud platforms. He combines deep Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, AWS, and FHIR expertise with a keen eye for UX and process automation, routinely leading cross-functional teams in SAFe agile environments. His background includes directing clinical decision support and secure, HIPAA-aware systems at scale, informed by a prior career in medical research and device design. Kevin holds a PhD in Mechanical/Biomedical Engineering from Duke, which gives him uncommon domain fluency that helps bridge clinical needs and engineering tradeoffs. An active open-source contributor, he’s improved security features in popular Ruby auth tooling (devise-security), adding tests and refactors that raise real-world reliability. Based in Cary, NC, he’s known for translating complex healthcare workflows into pragmatic, auditable software delivery.
17 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Mechanical / Biomedical Engineering, PhD Mechanical / Biomedical Engineering at Duke UniversityME Biomedical Engineering, ME Biomedical Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Github Skills (8)
security10
activerecord10
ruby-rails10
devise10
rails10
ruby10
testing9
session-management8
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
devise-security/devise-security
Oct 2017 - Jan 2022
A security extension for devise, meeting industry-standard security demands for web applications.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 releases, 49 reviews, 63 commits in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Kevin contributed significantly to the `devise-security` repository, primarily focusing on enhancing and expanding the security features provided by the Devise gem. Their work included adding migrations and tests for password expiration, archiving, and other standard Devise modules. They refactored existing code to eliminate deprecation warnings and improve overall code clarity while also adding tests to uncover potential issues with associated user data.
industry-standardmongoidpassword-expirationactivemodelsession-cookie
olbrich/IContact-API
Mar 2009 - Nov 2013
Contributions:3 commits in 4 years 8 months
ruby-wrapperapirubythinicontact
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