Mike Mcfarland
Principal Software Engineer at Change Healthcare
Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolMike Mcfarland is a Principal Software Engineer with 11 years of focused experience in healthcare technology, currently leading architecture and delivery at Change Healthcare from Kelowna, BC. His career traces progressive technical leadership across Vital Images and Agfa Healthcare, with deep domain expertise in medical imaging and enterprise healthcare systems. Trained as an electronics engineer (B.A.Sc., Honours from Simon Fraser University), he blends hardware-rooted rigor with software architecture to deliver reliable, regulated solutions. Known for guiding cross-functional teams through complex integrations, he has a track record of moving from hands-on development to senior architectural roles while staying close to implementation details. Though not highly visible on GitHub, his long tenures at industry vendors suggest significant contributions to production-grade healthcare platforms and compliance-driven engineering.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Electronics Engineering, Honours, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Electronics Engineering, Honours at Simon Fraser University
English
Github Skills (9)
jna10
java9
dicom9
duende5
imaging2
transport2
medical2
medical-imaging1
php1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
vitalimages/dcm4che
May 2019 - May 2019
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
mike-mcfarland/dcm4che
Nov 2016 - Nov 2016
DICOM Implementation in JAVA
Contributions:5 pushes, 4 branches, 1 comment in 2 days
javapatchdicom
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