Alan Ruttenberg
Compass Inc. at OBO Foundry
Buffalo, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlan Ruttenberg is a seasoned software leader and ontology expert who has spent over three decades building software across bioinformatics, AI, knowledge representation, and high-performance computing, and currently leads efforts at Compass Inc. and as a long-time coordinating editor for the OBO Foundry. He specializes in applying Semantic Web technologies and structured biomedical knowledge to interpret experimental and clinical data, having led clinical data exchange and data warehouse programs at the University at Buffalo. Comfortable bridging science, engineering, legal and business stakeholders, he has deep hands-on experience from microcode and parallel Lisp to rich UIs and ontology-driven applications. His work uniquely combines formal ontology stewardship with practical computational biology solutions—translating complex pathway and protein interaction knowledge into tools that support research and licensing. Trained at MIT and Brandeis, he pairs rigorous academic grounding in AI, music cognition and physics with a pragmatic record of shipping systems in industry and research. An understated through-line in his career is a knack for turning semantic complexity into usable platforms that scale from lab use-cases to institutional clinical research.
18 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Artificial Intelligence, Music, Master, Artificial Intelligence, Music at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMaster of Science (MS), Music and Cognition, Master of Science (MS), Music and Cognition at MIT Media LabBachelor, Physics, Mathematics, Bachelor, Physics, Mathematics at Brandeis University
Github Skills (200)
interoperability10
ontology10
semantic-web10
metadata10
docker-desktop10
j10
owl10
backend10
abcl10
ontologies10
linux10
dotnet10
semantics10
knowledge-management10
emacs10
Programming languages (27)
Github contributions (5)
alanruttenberg/lsw2
Apr 2010 - Jan 2023
OWL and Semantic Web toolkit for Common Lisp, used for construction and reasoning over ontologies and ontology-structured data
Contributions:1015 commits, 1 PR, 439 pushes in 12 years 10 months
common-lispontologiessemantic-webowlowl-api
alanruttenberg/purl.obolibrary.org
Dec 2016 - Jan 2024
A new system for managing OBO PURLs
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 comment in 7 years 3 months
obopurls
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