Summary
Anders Bilgrau is a Principal System Architect with 12 years of experience designing cloud-based high-performance computing environments and end-to-end data science pipelines for R and Python, primarily within clinical research. He blends a strong biostatistics foundation—PhD in Biostatistics and extensive experience analysing phase I–III trials—with hands-on skills in package development, model deployment, and platform change management. Anders has moved fluidly between roles as a lone data scientist in IoT and senior statistician in pharma, which gives him a rare ability to translate rigorous statistical practice into production-ready, user-focused analytics systems. He also teaches as an adjunct associate professor and runs a freelance practice, reflecting a commitment to reproducibility and mentoring across industry and academia. Not obvious from titles: he was rehired to champion R adoption at Novo Nordisk, underscoring his practical influence on tooling and workflows in regulated environments.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) (Bio)statistics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) (Bio)statistics at Aalborg University
Higher Technical Examination Programme (Upper secondary school exit examination studentereksamen), Higher Technical Examination Programme (Upper secondary school exit examination studentereksamen) at HTX, Aalborg
Public school (pre-school primary and lower secondary education), Public school (pre-school primary and lower secondary education) at Ferslev Public School (Folkeskole)
Danish, English