Ben Cornett
Senior Scientific Technical Leader at Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research
Belmont, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolBen Cornett is a Senior Scientific Technical Leader with 17 years of experience building cheminformatics and scientific software for drug discovery, currently leading technical efforts at Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research. He combines a PhD in chemistry from Emory with hands-on mastery of Python, Scheme, C, Perl, Unix, databases, web development, and high-performance computing to deliver chemical and biological information systems. His background spans industry roles at Eli Lilly and Novartis where he translated complex scientific requirements into robust data systems and scalable computational pipelines. Known for bridging deep domain science with practical engineering, he excels at architecting database-backed discovery tools and performance-sensitive applications. Based in Belmont, Massachusetts, he brings both research rigor and production-grade software craftsmanship to multidisciplinary teams.
17 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, chemistry, PhD, chemistry at Emory University
Github Skills (72)
mojolicious10
http10
mvc10
websocket10
perl10
cloud-native10
event-loop10
html10
json10
user-agent10
cpan10
cgi-script10
cgi10
web-framework10
ansible9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
cornett/coho
Jul 2017 - Jan 2020
Contributions:1 release, 125 commits, 246 pushes in 2 years 6 months
ecbenton/ecbenton.github.io
Jul 2021 - Mar 2026
Contributions:17 pushes in 4 years 8 months
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