Saul Kravitz
Advisor And Consultant at Cormorant Partners
McLean, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolSaul Kravitz is an accomplished technical leader and advisor with 15+ years driving data-intensive programs across genomics, proteomics, EHRs, and neural connectomics. He blends hands-on engineering chops with program-level stewardship, having led multi-million dollar engagements and authored multiple FHIR implementation guides for national health standards. Saul has repeatedly transformed stove-piped organizations—restructuring teams, introducing modern storage and NoSQL solutions, and aligning funding to customer outcomes—to reduce costs and boost productivity. He pairs deep domain expertise (PhD in ECE from Carnegie Mellon) with practical delivery experience at MITRE, HHMI, JCVI, and Celera, including contributions to whole-genome assembly and high-throughput proteomics pipelines. Notably, he helped design cloud-accessible sequence data delivery and FUSE tooling and has been a key author on vital records and oncology FHIR specifications. Based in McLean, VA, he focuses on breaking down organizational and technical barriers to deliver measurable value for scientific and health IT customers.
15 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Physics, BA, Physics at Johns Hopkins UniversityHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Charles E. Smith Jewish Day SchoolExecutive Education - Negotiation, Executive Education - Negotiation at University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton SchoolPhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering, PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Hebrew
Github Skills (70)
interoperability10
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dotnet10
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location10
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health10
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sample-data9
gravity9
blockchain9
referrals9
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
saulakravitz/vrdr
Sep 2021 - Mar 2022
Vital Records Death Reporting FHIR IG
Contributions:167 pushes, 3 branches in 5 months
deathrecordsreportingfhirvital
saulakravitz/carin-bb
May 2020 - Nov 2020
CARIN Blue Button IG - joint work between CARIN Alliance and HL7
Contributions:7 releases, 67 PRs, 321 pushes in 6 months
alliancebluehl7buttonjoint
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