Max Masnick
Principal Software Engineer & Data Scientist
Cleveland, Ohio, United States
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Top SchoolMax Masnick is a Principal Software Engineer and Data Scientist with 15 years of experience building data-driven health technology and research tools, currently leading technical projects and a cross-functional team at MITRE. He architects and implements production-grade pipelines and full-stack applications (Python, Ruby, R, JavaScript/TypeScript) and has driven national-scale initiatives like SMART Health Cards and FHIR for Research to make health data more accessible and interoperable. His background spans academia and industry—leading precision health analytics at Geisinger and early data science at Hospital IQ—bringing both rigorous epidemiology training and product-focused engineering. Max pairs hands-on implementation (including privacy-preserving record linkage and applied generative AI) with strategic business development, supervising technical staff while shaping partnerships. Based in Cleveland, he combines a public policy undergraduate and PhD-level epidemiology perspective to translate complex health-data problems into practical, secure solutions used by millions.
15 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Epidemiology, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Epidemiology at University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB)Bachelor's degree, Public policy, Bachelor's degree, Public policy at Duke University
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Github Skills (97)
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
NIH-ODSS/fhir-for-research
Mar 2023 - Jul 2023
FHIR for Research
Contributions:17 reviews, 15 PRs, 75 pushes in 3 months
fhirpythonquartor
masnick/census-blocks-in-urban-areas
Apr 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:1 release, 21 commits, 18 pushes in 2 days
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