Zaid Alsafadi
Director, Workday Platform Engineering Lead
Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZaid Alsafadi is a seasoned technology leader and director with over 20 years of experience designing enterprise architecture, cloud migrations, and platform strategies for financial, manufacturing, and healthcare organizations. Currently leading Workday platform engineering at Ally, he combines hands-on technical depth with executive collaboration to set architecture standards and drive digital transformation. His background spans Generative AI frameworks, employee chatbots, e-commerce platforms, and secure, scalable cloud solutions on Azure and AWS. An active open-source contributor, Zaid has improved medical imaging tooling—contributing front-end features and documentation to prominent DICOM projects like cornerstone and OHIF. He also co-founded the Charlotte Azure User Group and served on the SIM Charlotte board, reflecting a strong commitment to community leadership and technical education. Known for translating complex business needs into pragmatic architecture and repeatable governance, he blends strategic vision with practical delivery.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Information Technology Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Information Technology Computer Software Engineering at Philadelphia University
English, Arabic
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Github Skills (21)
javascript10
viewer10
medical-imaging10
dicom10
cornerstone10
react10
documentation10
imaging9
web-development9
image-analysis8
html8
medical8
css8
iis6
azure6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
cornerstonejs/cornerstone
Mar 2018 - Sep 2021
JavaScript library to display interactive medical images including but not limited to DICOM
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:33 commits, 20 PRs, 31 pushes in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Zaid primarily contributed to the front-end and related documentation aspects of the project. They added comprehensive documentation for the color module and implemented a displayed area module, enhancing the user interface. Furthermore, the user addressed various build warnings, fixed issues related to viewport and image rendering, and updated the example image loader.
javascript-librarymedical-imagesjavascriptvolume-renderingcornerstone
OHIF/Viewers
May 2018 - Nov 2022
OHIF zero-footprint DICOM viewer and oncology specific Lesion Tracker, plus shared extension packages
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:23 reviews, 6 commits, 9 PRs in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Zaid primarily contributed to the front-end components and functionalities of the OHIF viewer. Their work included updating dependencies like `cornerstone-web-image-loader`, addressing issues related to image display and measurement accuracy. Furthermore, the user integrated new MPR rotate functionality from `react-vtkjs-viewport` and resolved a bug related to WADO-RS metadata retrieval from .NET servers. Additionally, they updated the code to support direct URLs for the retrieve method.
nci-qintrackermedicalreactjszero-footprint
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