Matthias Görges
Associate Professor
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthias Görges is an Associate Professor and biomedical engineer with 15 years of experience translating physiological data into clinically useful decision support and monitoring systems. Trained with an MSc from HAW Hamburg and a PhD in Bioengineering from the University of Utah, he combines academic research with applied development work in patient monitoring, medical displays, mobile health, and data integration. At UBC and BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute he leads projects that turn vital signs and clinical streams into timely, actionable information to improve clinician decision-making. His background spans hands-on systems work—contributing to cross-platform open-source tooling for audio, HTTPS, PDF and trend data stores—with a practical focus on robust, safety-critical healthcare software. Colleagues value him for bridging anesthesiology domain expertise with engineering rigor and a knack for making complex monitoring data intelligible at the bedside.
15 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
The University of UtahMaster of Science (MSc), Master of Science (MSc) at Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften Hamburg (HAW Hamburg)
English, German, French
Github Skills (11)
scheme10
c1710
c1110
audio-processing9
cross-platform8
multiplatform8
linux7
pdf-generation6
data-structures6
data-structure6
cryptography5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
part-cw/lambdanative
May 2013 - Oct 2022
LambdaNative is a cross-platform development environment written in Scheme, supporting Android, iOS, BlackBerry 10, OS X, Linux, Windows, OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD and OpenWrt.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 releases, 50 reviews, 592 commits in 9 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Matthias primarily focused on extending the functionality of the cross-platform development environment. They implemented new features for audio handling, including fixing a segfault issue and adding support for playing non-existent audio files. Their work included integrating ALSA library for Linux compilation. They added features to support for https client support, PDF generation and data store for trends.
ios-androiddevelopment-platformfreebsdiosscheme
part-cw/LNhealth
May 2011 - Feb 2022
Contributions:286 commits, 47 pushes, 12 comments in 10 years 10 months
healthserverlessaws-lambdalambda
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