Summary
Dave Hill is a senior engineering executive and entrepreneur with over two decades of hands-on leadership delivering healthcare interoperability, embedded systems, OS and application platforms, and large-scale web applications. He has led teams up to 60 engineers, architected high-revenue embedded printer platforms and market-leading developer tools, and steered development of dozens of HL7 FHIR implementation guides and reference implementations that shaped national interoperability efforts. A frequent HIMSS speaker and White House presenter, he co-founded the PACIO consortium and helped author VA health IT assessments that influenced federal policy. Comfortable founding startups and scaling programs inside large organizations, he blends deep technical breadth—from RTOS and SoC verification to cloud APIs—with customer-driven, agile management. Notably, his early open-source and API work (hReader/Blue Button Plus precursor) anticipated modern patient-centric data platforms like HealthKit, demonstrating a long-standing focus on practical, standards-based innovation.
11 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Phillips Exeter Academy
BS Triple Major. Electrical Engineering Computer Engineering Applied Math (CS). Minor in Economics, BS Triple Major. Electrical Engineering Computer Engineering Applied Math (CS). Minor in Economics at Carnegie Mellon University