Dave Varon
Principal Data Engineer
Norwood, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolDave Varon is a Principal Data Engineer with over a decade in pharma, biotech, and a broader 25+ year technology career spanning finance and broadcasting. He designs and implements data architectures and pipelines that support complex scientific workflows, currently enabling multiplex data capture and analysis for novel drug development at Parabilis Medicines. Equally fluent with scientists, business stakeholders, and engineers, he combines deep technical skills (Postgres, NoSQL, Python, ETL, AWS) with a strong business-oriented mindset to deliver practical, auditable solutions. Creator of the tech-agnostic YADA data hub, he has a history of building vendor-agnostic tools and production systems for translational research and clinical trials at institutions like Novartis. His background in film and stand-up comedy underpins a rare mix of creativity, communication, and systems intuition that helps translate complex data problems into usable products. He holds a master’s in bioinformatics and consistently focuses on making data accessible, scalable, and trustworthy for cross-functional teams.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
BA Psychology, BA Psychology at Boston UniversityArts, Arts at Cambridge School of WestonVisual Art Music, Visual Art Music at New York UniversityMaster's Degree Bioinformatics, Master's Degree Bioinformatics at Northeastern UniversityNeedham High SchoolBS Film Television, BS Film Television at Boston University College of Communication
Italian, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (95)
scalability10
chrome-extension9
data-science9
distributed-systems9
testng8
web-application8
disk-space8
filesystem8
bioinformatics8
slurm7
testing7
windows7
metadata7
crawler7
reproducible-science7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Novartis/YADA
Oct 2015 - May 2021
Open-source Data Ops
Contributions:28 releases, 373 commits, 27 PRs in 5 years 7 months
data-sourceopsdatadata-sciencedistributed-systems
varontron/YADA
Jun 2021 - Sep 2022
Radically simplify data integration, aggregation, manipulation, and retrieval.
Contributions:4 releases, 7 PRs, 81 pushes in 1 year 3 months
data-integration
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