Michael Collins
Chief Technology Officer at UW School of Medicine and Public Health
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Collins is a Senior Director of Scientific Computing with a multi-decade track record transforming research and healthcare technology stacks to accelerate discovery and improve operational efficiency. He blends hands-on software architecture and data engineering experience with strategic leadership, having led migrations to cloud, built research data warehouses, and established reusable research platforms across major cancer centers and universities. Known for rapid learning and pragmatic change management, he excels at teaching teams new tools and processes so they can independently innovate. His career uniquely spans clinical operations, research informatics, and product-minded engineering—delivering solutions that save investigators time and grant dollars while improving data quality. Based in Milwaukee, he combines academic credentials in computer science and medical informatics with a talent for turning complex institutional needs into budget-neutral transformations.
9 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Temple UniversityM.S. Medical Informatics, M.S. Medical Informatics at Medical College of WisconsinB.S. Computer Science, B.S. Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-MadisonM.S. Medical Informatics, M.S. Medical Informatics at Milwaukee School of Engineering
Github Skills (48)
gmail10
monorepo10
discord9
axios9
msw9
whatsapp8
react8
openapi8
react-query8
code-generation8
telegram8
typesafe8
vue8
swagger8
codegen8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
0xemc/grapplemap
Apr 2023 - Dec 2025
Contributions:120 pushes, 6 branches, 1 tag in 2 years 8 months
0xemc/react-boilerplate
Nov 2019 - Dec 2021
A clean slate react project template set up with webpack and babel
Contributions:2 PRs, 8 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 2 months
slate-reactwebpack
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