Robert Winterbottom
Senior Platform Engineer
Laurel, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolRobert Winterbottom is a Senior Platform Engineer with 12+ years building resilient backend systems, SRE tooling, and cloud-native infrastructure across startups and govtech. He has led FHIR R&D and contributed to the open-source node-fhir-server-core project, helping secure and extend an HL7 FHIR server used in healthcare integrations. At Bubble he split time as an engineering manager and senior SRE, driving CI/CD migrations to GitHub Actions and Terraform while running sprint rituals and on-call incident response. His hands-on background spans Node.js, Rust, Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS, Elasticsearch and infrastructure automation with Packer, Salt and Ansible. Based in Laurel, Maryland, he pairs technical leadership with practical delivery—moving monoliths into services and shipping production-grade APIs. A former machinist/installer turned developer, he brings a pragmatic problem-solving approach and a demonstrated knack for making complex systems maintainable and secure.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
UMBCAssociates, General Studies, Associates, General Studies at Howard Community College
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Github Skills (23)
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
bluehalo/node-fhir-server-core
Jan 2018 - Jun 2019
An Open Source secure REST implementation for the HL7 FHIR Specification. For API documentation, please see https://github.com/Asymmetrik/node-fhir-server-core/wiki.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 releases, 4 reviews, 50 commits in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Robert primarily worked on the back-end implementation of the HL7 FHIR Specification, focusing on the core server functionalities. Their commits included merging code branches, such as 'develop' and feature branches, to integrate new features. The user also added new operation routes to the server, and modified existing code to enable more composite arguments, and fix various vulnerabilities in the dependencies of the project.
hl7-fhirapisecurehl7fhir
Robert-W/docker-mongoose
Sep 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:48 commits, 50 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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