Boris Adryan
Director Of Merck's Digital & Data Academy
Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany
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Top SchoolBoris Adryan is a director-level data and digital leader who transitioned from a decade-plus academic career in computational biology to build enterprise-wide data capability at Merck, currently running its Digital & Data Academy. He combines deep domain expertise—50 peer-reviewed bioscience publications and a PhD in developmental genetics—with practical experience delivering hands-on machine learning, IoT strategy and biomedical knowledge graphs across industry. At Merck he designs curricula that fast-track colleagues to "citizen data scientist" in under three months, mentors applied data projects worldwide, and embeds data culture into healthcare R&D. Previously he founded an IoT/data consultancy and authored the technical textbook The Technical Foundations of IoT, reflecting a rare blend of research rigour and product-focused prototyping. Based in Frankfurt, he is as comfortable mapping enterprise data strategy as he is teaching computational biology to non-specialists, making him effective at translating complex bioinformatics into business impact.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Dr. rer. nat. (PhD) Developmental Genetics, Dr. rer. nat. (PhD) Developmental Genetics at Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical ChemistryDiplom-Biologe (MSc equivalent) Biology, Diplom-Biologe (MSc equivalent) Biology at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
English, German
Github Skills (49)
glossaries9
nlp8
glossary8
multilingual8
data-wrangling7
science7
data-visualisation6
genetics6
core-library6
data-science6
eclipse5
phylogeny5
bioinformatics5
genomics5
dsl5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
badryan/badryan.github.io
May 2015 - Jul 2017
Contributions:11 pushes in 2 years 2 months
jekyll-blogjekylljekyll-thememinutes
badryan/node-files-pitft-touch
Aug 2014 - Nov 2014
Contributions:19 commits in 2 months
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