Patrick Vachon
Staff Software Developer at Smile Digital Health
Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolPatrick Vachon is a Staff Software Developer based in Quebec with over two decades of hands-on experience building full-stack systems, recently promoted at Smile Digital Health after driving cross-team development and mentorship. He specializes in Java ecosystems, messaging and integration technologies (ActiveMQ, Kafka, Camel), and relational databases (Postgres, MySQL, MSSQL), with deep domain experience in North American healthcare standards including HL7, FHIR, Mirth and HIPAA-compliant workflows. Patrick has a track record of designing and shipping production-grade backends for high-throughput environments (Ticketmaster) and clinical software platforms, combining infrastructure savvy with pragmatic integration skills. Comfortable across front-end web tech and server-side architecture, he often bridges product and operations to deliver end-to-end solutions and enable other engineers. Less obvious: his career stretches back to early web and multimedia development, giving him a rare perspective that blends legacy system migration with modern open-source tooling.
5 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
BAC, Informatique de génie (computer sciences), BAC, Informatique de génie (computer sciences) at Université LavalSciences Pures (pure sciences), Sciences Pures (pure sciences) at Cegep de Sainte-Foy
French, English
Github Skills (8)
hapi10
java-api10
hapi-fhir10
hl7-fhir10
api10
hl710
mhealth10
java10
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
hapifhir/hapi-fhir
Mar 2021 - Apr 2023
đ„ HAPI FHIR - Java API for HL7 FHIR Clients and Servers
Contributions:17 reviews, 25 comments, 2 issues in 2 years
hl7-fhirapihapihl7apps
hapifhir/hapi-hl7v2
Jun 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:1 comment, 1 issue in 9 months
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