Chris Petersen
CTO And Co-founder at Scientist.com
Encinitas, California, United States
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Top SchoolChris Petersen is a seasoned technology founder and CTO with 17 years of experience building web platforms that accelerate biomedical research. As co-founder and lead architect of Scientist.com he chose the platform stack, recruited and scaled engineering teams, and helped land enterprise customers like Pfizer, AstraZeneca and J&J, turning the company into the world’s largest marketplace for medical research. He blends hands-on engineering (Ruby on Rails architecture) with cross-functional leadership across sales, implementation, finance and fundraising to deliver product vision and commercial impact. Prior roles leading informatics and engineering teams show deep domain expertise in scientific data management, compound registration, and integrating lab workflows with modern web paradigms. Based in Encinitas, he pairs a practical, startup-minded approach with a mission-driven focus on enabling faster, lower-cost drug discovery. A less obvious strength is his history of formalizing development practices and vendor strategy to let scientists concentrate on core research rather than tooling.
17 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Computer Science, B.S. Computer Science at Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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Github Skills (41)
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
cpetersen/republic
Dec 2014 - Jul 2015
Contributions:93 commits, 2 branches in 6 months
assaydepot/omniauth-scientist
Jan 2019 - Apr 2024
Omniauth strategy for Scientist.com
Contributions:4 PRs, 7 pushes, 5 branches in 5 years 3 months
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