Michael Lawley
SNOMED On FHIR Co-Chair at SNOMED International
Brisbane City, Queensland, Australia
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Top SchoolMichael Lawley is a research-led software engineer and standards expert with over a decade of experience bridging ontologies, model-driven development and clinical interoperability. As SNOMED On FHIR Co-Chair and a long-time contributor to HL7 FHIR and HAPI FHIR, he combines deep domain knowledge of SNOMED CT with pragmatic back-end engineering—merging branches, improving parsers and refining ValueSet handling in widely used open-source FHIR projects. He leads research groups at CSIRO and has a track record influencing standards bodies (IHTSDO, OMG) on modelling, workflow and distributed systems. His PhD on integrity constraints for object-oriented databases underpins strong expertise in transaction processing, multi-database integration and generative tooling. Equally comfortable in academic and engineering settings, he designs domain-specific languages, Eclipse plugins and enterprise integration solutions. A not-obvious strength is his sustained ability to translate formal ontology and description-logic work into production-grade tooling and standards that drive real-world interoperability.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, PhD at Griffith UniversityThe University of Melbourne
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Github Skills (24)
hapi-fhir10
api-design10
java10
smart-on-fhir10
javas10
java-api10
hl7-fhir10
hl710
restful-api9
api-rest9
api9
rest-api9
versioning9
data-structures8
openapi8
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
HL7/fhir
Oct 2021 - Sep 2022
Official source for the HL7 FHIR Specification
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:26 commits, 9 PRs, 4 pushes in 10 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily focused on merging branches and integrating changes into the HL7 FHIR specification project. Their commits indicate involvement in updating documentation and metadata types, suggesting a role in maintaining and refining the core components of the specification. The code changes highlight modifications to messaging, data types, and profiling, indicating an understanding of the project's architecture and data structures. They worked on operations for large resources, such as adding or removing entries from the Group or List resources.
hl7-fhirhl7fhirspecificationtla
hapifhir/hapi-fhir
Nov 2016 - Jan 2023
🔥 HAPI FHIR - Java API for HL7 FHIR Clients and Servers
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 11 PRs, 19 comments in 6 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to the HAPI FHIR project by fixing bugs and implementing enhancements to the Java API. Their work included addressing issues related to FHIR versioning and MIME types. They also focused on improving the parser, and fixing and enhancing ValueSet expansion support within the validation process. Furthermore, they worked on ensuring compatibility with older DSTU3 versions and expanding openapi generation.
hl7-fhirapihapihl7apps
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