Eric Tang

When done well, software is invisible, vanish in cloud.

Columbia, Maryland, United States

About

An inventor and problem solver with over decade software design and development experience in the healthcare industry. Worked with cloud services since 2017, possess profound knowledge moving software solutions to the cloud.

Experience

  • Audacious Inquiry, A PointClickCare Company (12 yrs 10 mos)
    • Lead Software Engineer
      Apr 2010 - Jan 2023 · 12 yrs 10 mos

      Scope: Work on software product ARCHER™, it is a network solution connected to the national data exchanges that automatically retrieves clinical patient record data in a timely manner, after patient got discharge from the hospitals in order to jump start the care transitions. It empowers hospitals and providers to re-focus their time on patients, reduce cost, and deliver the highest standards of quality care. Impact: - Event-driven architecture built with microservices fully operational in the AWS cloud. - Lead role in design and development for numerous frameworks to reduce development cost and shorten the time to market. - Provide mentoring and training to the development team regarding to the design patterns and domain knowledge. - Knowledgeable of Qualified Health Information Network (QHIN) and Technical Framework (QTF).

    • Lead Software Development Engineer
      Feb 2019 - May 2021 · 2 yrs 4 mos

      Scope: Worked on software product PROMPT® a web-based user interface that allows subscribers of the Encounter Notification Service® (ENS®) to increase utilization of a patient’s admit, discharge, transfer (ADT) data. It also serves as a lightweight care management tool to supports certain care workflows. Impact: - Work with a development team (size of 5) to modernize and migrate the existing product to the cloud. - Work in close liaison with other product team to reduce development frictions. - Lead the back-end design and development which utilizes No-SQL solutions. - Help defining the continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) process using git pipelines. - Design and implement data migration plans and assist query tunings to improve system performance and scalability.

    • Lead Software Development Engineer
      Aug 2017 - Feb 2019 · 1 yr 7 mos

      Scope: Worked on Unified Landing Page (ULP), a software solution to provide access to all aspect of the HIE (health information exchange) services, such as patient health records, patient snapshot, image exchange. The product has been adopted by CRISP (Maryland state HIE) since 2017, DHIN (Delaware state HIE) since 2018 and along with few other state health data agents and service providers. Impact: - Work with architect and business owners to gather and refine requirements for the development team (size of 5) and draw design diagrams. - Containerize the software services and build continuous integration to deploy to the cloud (AWS). - Work with architect to prototype and develop in-house SSO solution using SAML. - Interface with external system vendors to define integration specifications. - Develop and modernize over 10 major features of the product.

  • Senior Software Engineer at CRISP - Chesapeake Regional Information System for our Patients
    Mar 2017 - Aug 2017 · 6 mos

    Scope: Worked as a consultant for CRISP (Maryland regional HIE), partner with other vendors of the client to build software solutions which manages patient consent and healthcare relationships information. Impact: - Work as lead developer to port set of web services written in JAVA to .Net Core and move the product to the cloud (Azure). - Help define and improve the development process. - Define and implement the security data protocols between cloud and on premise data centers.

  • HL7 analyst/System Developer (contractor) at Maryland Department of Health
    Jan 2012 - Nov 2012 · 11 mos

    • Analyze and validate hl7 feeds against COMAR (MD state regulations) supplied by hospitals to meet meaningful use phase two requirements. • Configure integration engine (Rhapsody) to route the information into different state owned health systems. • Take the initiative to automate the validation process by leveraging existing software resources at site. • Allow company to extend the business and secure more contract work.