Ian Bacher
Engineering Lead at OpenMRS
Rhode Island, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolIan Bacher is an engineering lead and full-stack developer with six years of professional software experience, currently co-leading engineering at OpenMRS while holding a senior software engineer/team lead role with the University of Washington's global health group. He blends front-end UI craftsmanship—shiping patient management and EMR chart modules—with back-end and DevOps work, including migrating core services to log4j2, improving REST APIs, and Dockerizing reference distributions for smoother deployments. His contributions to the widely used OpenMRS ecosystem show a pragmatic focus on usability, session and translation handling, and build/tooling modernization. A former data scientist and engineer at Brown University with a PhD from the University of Nottingham, he brings academic rigor to production systems and an appreciation for healthcare-oriented open source. Notably, he often bridges roles—removing dependencies, refactoring for peer compatibility, and tuning startup scripts—so teams can ship reliable EMR features faster.
7 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at University of NottinghamBachelor of Arts - BA, Bachelor of Arts - BA at McGill University
French, German, English
Github Skills (45)
api-rest10
javascript10
docker10
health10
api-design10
restful-api10
testing10
typescript10
bash10
user-interface10
microfrontend10
dockers10
java10
webservice10
cicd10
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
openmrs/openmrs-esm-patient-management
Feb 2022 - Dec 2022
Frontend modules for patient management, including appointment scheduling, patient list management, registration, search and service queue management
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 435 reviews, 16 commits in 10 months
Contributions summary:Ian primarily focused on the front-end development of the OpenMRS patient management application. Their contributions included fixing bugs related to session handling and address fields, refactoring patient identifier fields, and adding version numbers to various applications. They also addressed UI issues, such as making sure address fields are properly displayed, and implemented translation support for sections within the patient registration app.
frontendhealthcaremicrofrontendsopenmrsreact
openmrs/openmrs-esm-core
Oct 2021 - Jan 2023
The core modules of the OpenMRS 3.0 Frontend system
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:11 releases, 740 reviews, 76 commits in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Ian primarily focused on enhancing the OpenMRS 3.0 Frontend system, as evidenced by the commits. Their contributions include adding features to download core apps and implementing changes to the build process. They also addressed issues related to session management and user interface aspects of the application. Furthermore, they updated the tooling configuration and resolved issues related to the application's deployment and build configuration.
frontendopenmrs
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