Larry Shields
Principal Data Engineer
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolLarry Shields is a Principal Data Engineer with over a decade of experience building data-driven solutions at UPMC Enterprises, where he progressed from Lead to Principal roles shaping healthcare integrations and analytics. He combines pragmatic product management instincts with hands-on engineering in Java, Python, .NET, and ETL tooling to deliver reliable pipelines and interoperability around HL7, C-CDA and FHIR. Known for bridging strategy and execution, he applies agile practices, wireframing and competitive analysis to turn clinical messaging challenges into production-ready systems. Based in Pittsburgh, he brings a blend of technical depth in databases and integration frameworks (Apache Camel, Mirth) and a product-minded approach honed earlier in product management roles.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Bachelor’s Degree at University of Pittsburgh
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Github Skills (16)
aws9
boto9
testing8
transformation7
data-transformation7
infrastructure7
python6
api5
fluent-api5
cda5
assertion5
test-runner3
unit-testing3
data-model3
transformer2
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
runstache/cda2fhir
Jun 2019 - Jun 2023
CDA to FHIR Transformer Library
Contributions:1 PR, 36 pushes, 12 branches in 4 years
transformercdafhir
CodeForPittsburgh/food-access-data-transformation
Nov 2021 - Jan 2023
Data Transformation Scripts for the Code For Pittsburgh Food Access Map
Contributions:34 commits, 2 PRs, 13 pushes in 1 year 1 month
transformationpythonfoodmappittsburgh
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