Nils Clausen
Chief Executive Officer at Canadian Medical Equipment Protection Plan (CMEPP)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolNils Clausen is a healthcare-focused executive with over 25 years of experience building and scaling medical equipment and supply-chain businesses, currently serving as CEO of Canadian Medical Equipment Protection Plan in Toronto. He has a proven track record of doubling business size through disciplined operations, financial management, and customer-centric sales and marketing while implementing sustainable systems and resources. Nils is skilled at assembling high-performing teams, driving market access and strategic partnerships, and delivering measurable value for hospitals and healthcare organizations. His background includes senior leadership roles at GHX and Cardinal Health, and a brief independent consulting practice focused on transformation and analytics. Uncommonly for a CEO, he also contributes to open-source Ruby projects—improving code quality and tooling such as RuboCop—demonstrating hands-on technical curiosity alongside commercial leadership. He combines entrepreneurial drive, ethics, and community engagement to exceed expectations and sustain long-term growth.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at St. Andrew's CollegeBachelor of Arts (BA) Economics, Bachelor of Arts (BA) Economics at Huron University
Github Skills (23)
rubocop10
static-code-analysis10
faraday10
codelist10
ruby10
code-analysis10
lint10
linter10
linting10
testing9
formater9
formatter9
formatters9
sql-formatter9
code-formatting9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
rubocop/rubocop
Jan 2017 - Jun 2018
A Ruby static code analyzer and formatter, based on the community Ruby style guide.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 11 PRs, 2 comments in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Nils primarily contributed to the RuboCop project by enhancing and refining the code analysis capabilities of the tool. Their work includes modifying the `Style/TernaryParentheses` cop to correctly identify and address code style issues, fixing documentation errors and adding logic for edge cases with square brackets. They also added a default parameter to Style/NumericLiterals cop, and addressed an issue related to correct line numbers in class_eval and configuration file error handling.
linterstyle-guidecode-formattercode-analyzerruby
lostisland/faraday_middleware
Feb 2020 - Feb 2020
Various Faraday middlewares for Faraday-based API wrappers
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 9 PRs in 8 days
Contributions summary:Nils primarily focused on code quality and maintainability within the `faraday_middleware` project, as demonstrated by commits related to RuboCop linting. They updated code to align with modern Ruby practices, removing deprecated features like `String#chr` and leveraging `Faraday::Utils` methods available in newer Faraday versions. The user also made changes to the test suite, particularly the handling of Gzip compression and YAML parsing, to ensure proper functionality.
apimiddlewareswrappersmiddlewareapi-based
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