Michael Hemesath
Principal Engineer, Data And Intelligence
Overland Park, Kansas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Hemesath is a Principal Engineer and seasoned software leader with 15 years of experience building and managing engineering teams focused on healthcare products and data intelligence. He blends hands-on expertise in front-end technologies (React, CSS Modules) and full-stack stacks including Rails, Django, Node, AWS, Terraform, and observability tools to deliver reliable, production-grade systems. Michael has progressed from individual contributor to director-level roles at Cerner and AWS before leading Data & Intelligence at Validic, demonstrating strong delivery and cross-functional leadership in health tech. An active contributor to the cerner/terra-core React UI library, he has practical experience modernizing component libraries and theming for scalable enterprise UIs. Colocated in Overland Park, KS, he pairs pragmatic engineering with a track record of measurable performance and usability improvements across large-scale healthcare platforms.
15 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Computer Science, Bachelor's Computer Science at Iowa State University
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Github Skills (15)
css-modules10
web-framework10
javascript10
component-kit10
frontend10
web-components10
js-framework10
terra10
react10
ui-components10
sc9
scs9
accessibility8
protovis6
raphael6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
cerner/terra-core
Jul 2017 - Dec 2017
Terra offers a set of configurable React components designed to help build scalable and modular application UIs. This UI library was created to solve real-world issues in projects we work on day to day.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:27 commits, 56 PRs, 137 pushes in 5 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to the front-end development of Terra Core, a React UI library. They migrated existing components, like the "badge" and "button," to use CSS Modules for improved styling and maintainability. Additionally, the user worked on integrating and testing various UI components including arrange, alert, and card components. The user also contributed to improving the visual aspect of the UI by creating and integrating themes.
dayterrareact-componentsreactjsmodular
traviscooper/node-wkhtml
Jul 2011 - Dec 2012
Convert html to PDF or PNG format using the webkit rendering engine, and qt.
Contributions:12 commits in 1 year 5 months
rendering-enginepdfhtml-to-pdfrenderingwebkit
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