Kris Van Der Starren
Manager - Product Modernization
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolKris Van Der Starren is a growth-oriented technology leader with 13 years of experience modernizing mission-critical platforms for healthcare, government, and communications sectors. Currently managing product modernization at Maximus Canada, he leads the cloud-native, AI-enabled transformation of Medigent to improve scalability, automation, and citizen-centric services across multiple jurisdictions. His background spans founding and exiting a health-tech SaaS company, leading large engineering teams, and delivering cloud migrations, SRE practices, and enterprise identity modernization programs that impacted millions of users. Kris blends strategic product vision with hands-on delivery—overseeing architecture, agile practices, compliance, and vendor relations—to reduce total cost of ownership and accelerate time-to-value. He has a practical business and engineering foundation from McGill and Algonquin College and an uncommon track record of both building and selling a regulated SaaS business, giving him rare empathy for operators and executives alike.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Algonquin CollegeBusiness Administration and Management, General, Business Administration and Management, General at McGill University
Github Skills (2)
emr8
bitbucket6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (1)
scoophealth/oscar
Apr 2013 - Aug 2015
OSCAR EMR, Mirror of https://bitbucket.org/oscaremr/oscar
Contributions:37 commits in 2 years 4 months
oscar-emrbitbucketemr
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