Rod Roark
Owner at Sunset Systems
Fairfield, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRod Roark is a seasoned software engineer and entrepreneur with 18 years of experience, currently running Sunset Systems out of Fairfield, California. He combines hands-on back-end development with product-focused ownership, delivering practical solutions for real-world workflows. An active contributor to the popular OpenEMR project, Rod has implemented inventory and patient-data tooling, refactored billing and fee-sheet logic, and added security enhancements that improved the EHR codebase. His work shows a knack for untangling legacy systems and adding dynamic form handling to make complex medical workflows more maintainable and auditable. Comfortable working across technical and business responsibilities, he translates domain needs into robust, production-ready features. Colleagues rely on him for steady execution, pragmatic engineering, and a willingness to dive into intricate healthcare software challenges.
18 years of coding experience
Rhodes College
Github Skills (11)
php10
ehealth10
medical10
database-design10
mysql10
api-design9
restful-api9
rest-api9
api-rest9
html8
javascript7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
openemr/openemr
Nov 2010 - Sep 2022
The most popular open source electronic health records and medical practice management solution.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:78 reviews, 342 commits, 101 PRs in 12 years
Contributions summary:Rod made substantial contributions to the OpenEMR codebase by developing new features within the context of the Electronic Health Records (EHR) and medical practice management solution. Primarily focused on extending the system's capabilities, their work includes implementing features such as an inventory transactions report, adding and improving code types, and implementing a tool to manage patient data. The user also made several security-related enhancements and refactored the codebase for the billing and fee sheet functionality and other relevant data objects for the system, as evidenced by the introduction of dynamic form handling and enhancements.
emrfhirelectronicmedicalelectronic-health-records
sunsetsystems/fampemr
Nov 2011 - Dec 2014
Contributions:343 commits in 3 years 1 month
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