Joost Wagenaar
I3H - Data Informatics Core Leadership Position
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoost Wagenaar is a biomedical informatics leader and platform builder with 10+ years of experience creating cloud-native ecosystems that accelerate collaborative, multi-modal scientific research. As an assistant professor and leader of the I3H Data Informatics Core at the University of Pennsylvania, he has led data cores for major NIH programs (SPARC, HEAL, Epilepsy.Science) and helped scale platforms from Ieeg.org to Blackfynn and Pennsieve. He combines hands-on engineering and product instincts from his startup experience with deep domain expertise in neuroengineering and clinical research workflows. Joost focuses on making scientific data transparent and discoverable—connecting the right data to the right people at the right time—while prioritizing sustainable, scalable tooling for visualization, integration, and analysis. He also trains the next generation of clinical researchers and data scientists to leverage these platforms, translating complex research needs into practical, production-grade solutions.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
MS Electrical Engineering, MS Electrical Engineering at University of TwentePh.D. BioEngineering, Ph.D. BioEngineering at University of Pittsburgh
Dutch, English
Github Skills (47)
client-library10
web-application9
command-line-interface9
aws9
golang9
api9
grpc9
cli9
sparc9
go8
agent8
matlab8
scala8
data-management8
standardized7
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
Pennsieve/model-service-serverless
Sep 2022 - Aug 2025
New serverless service handling the Pennsieve Metadata functionality
Contributions:1 review, 14 PRs, 103 pushes in 2 years 11 months
golangapiserverless-applicationsserverlesshandling
Blackfynn/blackfynn-matlab
Jun 2018 - Sep 2019
MATLAB toolbox/client for the Blackfynn platform
Contributions:34 releases, 108 commits, 82 PRs in 1 year 2 months
matlabdata-sciencemetadataneurosciencebioengineering
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