Henry Tao
About Henry Tao
Henry Tao is the Lead Developer at NYU Langone Medical Center, with extensive experience in software engineering and system integration.
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Henry Tao is the Lead Developer at NYU Langone Medical Center, where he has been employed since 2013.
Current Position at NYU Langone Medical Center
Since 2013, Henry Tao has served as the Lead Developer at NYU Langone Medical Center. In this role, he has designed and implemented a real-time patient demographics database using a Cassandra cluster with Akka Streams. Additionally, he developed an HL7 to Cassandra UDT adapter for upstream persistence and implemented a MongoDB sharded cluster, facilitating the processing of 30,000 HL7 messages per day.
Previous Roles and Experience
Prior to his current position, Henry Tao worked at Fluitec as a Senior Software Engineer/Front-end Lead from 2012 to 2013. He co-founded Qensho Inc in 2012 and served as a consultant at UNFCU from 2009 to 2011. Other earlier roles include Systems Integration Specialist/DBA at Ellen Tracy, DBA at UNFCU, .NET Developer at Kate Spade, LLC, DBA at Capital IQ, and Senior Programmer/Analyst at John Wiley & Sons.
Educational Background
Henry Tao studied Finance and Financial Management Services at the University at Buffalo. He earned a Bachelor of Science (BS) degree, completing his studies from 1990 to 1994.
Technical Implementations and Systems Integration
Henry Tao has a track record of successful technical implementations. At NYU Langone Medical Center, he created the Research Integration Layer to synchronize real-time updates across multiple application domains, including Epic EHR and PeopleSoft Finance. He utilized Spark for real-time demographic updates and analytics, deployed a Solr search engine for enhanced data accessibility, and integrated systems for patient enrollment in Epic from CRMS. Additionally, he facilitated the creation of specimen sample data in REDCap from LabVantage.