Erik Van Widenfelt
Clinical Trial Data Systems
Round Rock, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolErik Van Widenfelt is a clinical trial data systems specialist with over 11 years of experience building and operating secure, compliant data platforms for research and public health. He has led data operations and IT as Director at the Botswana‑Harvard AIDS Institute Partnership and now oversees clinical trial systems at Panoptic Bio while contributing to projects at UCL and Healis Therapeutics. His hands-on skillset spans Python, Django, SQL, Linux, cloud EDC deployment, QA, auditing, and protocol development—bridging software engineering with trial management. Erik’s background includes long-term fieldwork and leadership in low-resource settings, giving him practical insight into designing robust, auditable systems that work where infrastructure is constrained. He pairs scientific training in cellular and molecular biology with decades of IT consulting and operational delivery, making him equally comfortable with data pipelines and regulatory compliance. Known for pragmatic problem solving, he often focuses on reproducibility and security in clinical data workflows.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Cellular Molecular Biology, BA, Cellular Molecular Biology at University of Michigan
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (72)
xadmin10
clinical-research10
backbone10
encryption10
django10
laravel10
revert10
health-informatics10
django-admin10
django-models10
controlled10
git-revision10
clinical-trials10
medicine10
cdr9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
clinicedc/edc-qareports
Jun 2024 - Jul 2025
Contributions:92 pushes, 2 branches, 22 tags in 1 year 1 month
clinicedc/edc-metadata
Mar 2018 - Jul 2025
Adds models and other functionality to support a meta-data layer above models/CRFs.
Contributions:2 PRs, 487 pushes, 2 branches in 7 years 5 months
data-qualitydata-layerphpmetameta-data
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