Sam Likins
Senior Software Engineer - MTS IV (WISP) at Panasonic Avionics Corporation
Lake Forest, California, United States
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Top SchoolSam Likins is a senior software engineer with 12 years of professional experience and a longstanding entrepreneurial streak, currently building airline-facing microservice gateways and CI/CD components at Panasonic Avionics. He blends hands-on backend engineering and DevOps skills—evidenced by contributions to OpenEMR (integrating NewCrop e-prescribing) and improving developer environments for the datafolklabs cement framework—to make complex systems more reliable and maintainable. As owner of WSI-Services since 2004, he designs and deploys web and IoT solutions, runs server and network operations, and tackles R&D and repair work that many engineers avoid. Comfortable retrofitting legacy systems and crafting API ICDs for airline customers, he favors pragmatic fixes that improve developer experience and operational resilience. Based in Lake Forest, CA, Sam brings a troubleshooting-first mindset and a history of shipping both client-facing products and mission-critical healthcare and aviation integrations.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, General Education, High School Diploma, General Education at Tustin High SchoolUS Navy
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Github Skills (13)
emr10
php10
bash10
health10
ehealth10
vagrant10
sql10
medical10
soap10
database-design9
database-administration8
python8
documentation7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
openemr/openemr
Oct 2013 - Sep 2016
The most popular open source electronic health records and medical practice management solution.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 21 PRs, 14 comments in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Sam primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the OpenEMR system, focusing on the integration of NewCrop e-prescription services. Their work involved creating and modifying classes for SOAP request caching, database table definitions, and connectors to interact with the NewCrop API. They also refactored code related to health plan data and patient document handling, ensuring accurate data storage and retrieval. Furthermore, the user addressed data storage issues, including sanitization and version upgrades.
emrfhirelectronicmedicalelectronic-health-records
datafolklabs/cement
Jan 2018 - Jan 2018
Application Framework for Python
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:8 commits, 6 PRs, 25 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Sam focused on improving the development and testing environment by modifying the Vagrant setup. They adjusted the `Vagrantfile` to execute a specific script at provision and refactored the provisioning script to set up the virtual environment and manage dependencies, addressing issues related to Docker and virtual environment configuration. Additionally, they corrected documentation related to links and compilation, improving the overall developer experience.
pythonframeworkapplication-framework
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