Ryan Dern
Software Engineer at athenahealth
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Dern is a software engineer with nine years' experience building cloud infrastructure, APIs, and AI/ML-enabled products from research prototypes to production services. He has shipped systems at scale across healthcare and consumer domains, currently contributing to athenahealth’s collector platform after roles on Alexa Smart Home and AWS Aurora PostgreSQL. His background blends low-level database and distributed systems work with hands-on experimentation in human-computer interaction—he built an Electron/WebGL eye-tracking app for vision research during university. Comfortable in fast-moving, cross-functional teams, Ryan brings experience navigating both strict production SLAs and exploratory research codebases. Based in Boston, he favors pragmatic engineering that bridges user-facing features and robust backend services.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of Massachusetts Boston
English
Github Skills (24)
open-science10
bounding-box10
cancer-detection10
webapp10
cornerstone10
dicom10
algorithms9
angular9
post-processing8
image-effects8
open-source7
deep-learning7
google-trends7
composer6
eye-tracking5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
umb-deephealth/deephealth-annotate
Mar 2021 - Feb 2023
DeepHealth Annotate is a web-based tool for viewing and annotating DICOM images. Annotation metadata can be exported in JSON format to be used for a variety of purposes, such as creating training input for deep learning models that use bounding box algorithms.
Contributions:28 reviews, 156 commits, 166 PRs in 1 year 10 months
bounding-boxdeep-learningdicomopen-sciencecancer-detection
RMDern/gazehelper
Jun 2019 - Jun 2022
GazeHelper is an eye-tracking research tool intended to study the potential relief of symptoms of amblyopia (lazy eye), strabismus (crossed eyes), and ADHD using gaze-responsive exercise methods.
Contributions:28 commits, 7 PRs, 10 pushes in 3 years
eye-tracking
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