Paul Taladay
SDE II at Microsoft
Kent, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Taladay is an SDE II with 11 years of experience building full-stack systems, currently contributing to Microsoft's Azure Health Data Services where he works on the open-source and managed FHIR server. He blends backend expertise—database design, cancellation-aware DB operations, export robustness and improved logging—with front-end JavaScript skills and hands-on end-to-end client deliveries. His background spans higher-education enterprise APIs, API gateway integration, and performance-focused migrations (e.g., LDAP to Elasticsearch), giving him a strong operational and systems perspective. Comfortable in client-facing and scrum-master roles, he pairs technical execution with product and business context to drive pragmatic solutions. Notably, his contributions to the microsoft/fhir-server project improved resilience and user experience by addressing export limits, package governance, and error handling. Based in Kent, WA, he brings a practical, cross-disciplinary approach that balances open-source collaboration and cloud-scale production reliability.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Pacific Lutheran University
English, German
Stackoverflow
49reputation
5kreached
4answers
7questions
Github Skills (23)
net10
dotnet10
smart-on-fhir10
asp-net10
sql10
dotnet-core10
hl7-fhir10
csharp10
api-design9
restful-api9
api-rest9
rest-api9
database-management9
testing7
elasticsearch6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/fhir-server
Jun 2021 - Jan 2023
A service that implements the FHIR standard
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:324 reviews, 18 commits, 190 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Paul primarily focused on enhancing the backend functionality of the FHIR server. Their contributions include adding cancellation tokens to database operations, fixing issues related to export job limits, and correcting a casing issue affecting resource type overrides. They addressed a component governance alert by updating affected packages and added error messages for RequestEntityTooLargeException during export, improving the system's resilience and user experience. Additionally, they modified bundle handling to improve logging capabilities.
hl7fhirazure-cosmos-dbazure-app-servicefhir-standard
PTaladay/fhir-server
Jun 2021 - Oct 2021
A service that implements the FHIR standard
Contributions:3 pushes, 2 branches in 4 months
fhir-standardfhir
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