Ahmer Khan

Executive Director of Engineering at athenahealth

Role
Executive Director of Engineering at athenahealth
Location
Winchester, MA, US
LinkedIn followers
500 followers

About Ahmer Khan

Engineering Leader looking to join a successful and innovative team that will provide challenging leadership and technical opportunities while allowing for professional growth towards Software Leadership.

Experience

  1. Executive Director of Engineering

    athenahealth

    Jan 2021 — Present

    Currently responsible for Medications and Specialties Zones, consisting of >120 engineers across US and India. Serving as Zone Lead for Specialties. Leading with execution focused and tech modernization strategy. Delivered high-impact organizational win for Unified Women’s Health (OB) and Optum (BH) pushing forward tech modernization and meeting all client contract deliverables. 1st team in Clinicals to deliver across full modern stack using React, Java and GraphQL. Led zone split to accommodate business objectives and was responsible for Clinician Experience and Specialties Experience, consisting of >100 engineers across US and India, all while serving as Zone Lead for Specialties. Focused on engineering productivity, highest performing Clinicals team in 2020 (code, tasks, features delivered per developer). Fostering high retention and engagement focused zone culture. Maintaining high performance culture with strong management and career pathing. Delivered several large initiatives requiring cross-zone and cross-division collaboration: Data Privacy, Enhanced Diagnosis, Experiential Interop, Diagnosis/Risk Gaps, Specialties Consistently delivered all Product Roadmap deliverables and driving strong engagement and tech modernization, 70% of all front-end work in React and 30% in Java/GraphQL in 2024. Focused on talent development, coached, mentored and created career paths for 4 engineers to Director-level promotions: 2 Architects, 1 SPMTS and 1 Director of Engineering. Established robust hiring pipeline through intern program, focused on hiring high potential junior engineers and created a culture focused on career growth and opportunity for the senior engineers. Delivered 21st Century Cures Act commitments with coordination across multiple divisions. Served as Zone Lead for Clinician Experience Zone consisting of >50 engineers.

Education

  • Harvard Business School Executive Education

    Leadership Development Program

  • UMass Boston

    Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science

  • Northeastern University

    MS, Computer Systems Engineering

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