David Whitten
Software Engineer
Mississippi , USA, United States
Summary
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SeniorDave Whitten is a seasoned medical informatics leader with over three decades of experience designing and maintaining clinical systems such as VistA, CHCS, and laboratory information systems. As VistA Business Systems Manager for North Carolina and CTO of WorldVistA, he blends hands-on MUMPS development with strategic deployment of ontologies, controlled vocabularies, and semantic-web decision support to deliver actionable information at the point of care. A long-time ResearchCyc contributor and CycL programmer, he brings rare expertise in ontology-driven inference engines alongside traditional database and EHR engineering. Practical and systems-focused, he also co-founded WorldVistA and continues to shepherd open, interoperable health IT solutions while exploring languages like Delphi.
14 years of coding experience
Github Skills (179)
parser10
python10
windows10
bots10
portable-executable10
swi-prolog10
corpus10
computer-algebra-system10
science10
notepad10
rdf10
computer-algebra10
mediawiki-extension10
ngram10
schema-org10
Programming languages (28)
Github contributions (5)
whitten/Marpa--R2
Jul 2015 - Mar 2026
Contributions:2 pushes in 10 years 9 months
describebnfany-languageparsingparser
whitten/m-adventure
Mar 2016 - Dec 2020
Contributions:18 commits, 6 PRs, 16 pushes in 4 years 9 months
tapegamegamessig
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