Paul Bastide
Senior Software Engineer at IBM
Ashland, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolPaul Bastide is a senior software engineer with over two decades of experience building resilient, compliant healthcare data platforms and leading teams through complex system integrations. At IBM he architects and implements near-real-time FHIR solutions using Kafka, Kubernetes, Open Liberty, Java, and cloud storage while ensuring GxP, HIPAA and GDPR compliance. A prolific inventor and four-time IBM Master Inventor, he has filed and been granted hundreds of patents and mentors early-career engineers on IP and technical growth. Paul contributes to notable open-source projects including OpenShift release tooling and the LinuxForHealth FHIR server, where he has enhanced CI/CD reliability and bulk FHIR data capabilities. Based in Ashland, MA, he blends deep customer enablement and high-performance backend development with a hands-on embrace of multi-architecture Go and Python on Kubernetes. Outside work he volunteers, photographs, hikes mountains and follows the Red Sox.
11 years of coding experience
Computer Science, Computer Science at Pace University-Pleasantville/Briarcliff CampusBS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Northeastern University
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Github Skills (28)
apidoc10
scripting10
ibm-cloud10
terraform10
java10
cicd10
smart-on-fhir10
javas10
terraformer10
automation10
script10
openshift10
api10
sh10
automations10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
LinuxForHealth/FHIR
Jun 2019 - Mar 2022
The LinuxForHealth FHIR® Server and related projects
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 releases, 2179 reviews, 2499 commits in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Paul's commits primarily involved modifying and expanding the capabilities of the LinuxForHealth FHIR server. Specifically, the changes indicate work on adding features such as bulk data import/export, adding functionality to the Request Contexts, and updating methods related to the handling of the FHIR operation. The focus of the changes indicates development of server-side functionalities.
db2open-libertyfhirfhir-serverliberty
openshift/release
Jul 2023 - Apr 2025
Release tooling for OpenShift
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:254 reviews, 95 PRs, 768 comments in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Paul primarily focused on enhancing the release tooling for OpenShift by modifying and hardening the CI/CD pipelines. They addressed issues related to PowerVS installation, deprovisioning, and instance cleanup, as well as incorporating the new CLI commands. Furthermore, they worked on optimizing resource management and incorporating security enhancements to improve the overall stability and reliability of the OpenShift release process. This involved changes to shell scripts and configuration files related to PowerVS infrastructure management.
continuous-deploymentkubernetesopenshifttooling
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