Summary
Daniela Bourges-waldegg is a technology leader and CTO with eight years of experience building data-driven platforms that bridge science, software, and bioinformatics to accelerate research. At Addgene she defines technology and data strategy, oversees engineering, data science, and bioinformatics, and architects strategic initiatives that scale a mission-driven repository used across the research community. Her background spans startups and research institutions—from architecting HIPAA-compliant medical data pipelines at Medal to leading semantic-web and ontology-driven projects at Harvard and MIT Lincoln Laboratory—giving her a rare blend of production engineering, research rigor, and domain expertise in biomedical data. She has deep experience turning complex data and semantic challenges into practical, scalable systems and has repeatedly stepped into interim executive roles to align technology with organizational priorities. Based in Greater Boston, she combines PhD-level research sensibilities with hands-on product and team leadership to deliver impactful infrastructure for science.
8 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Université de Rennes I
Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana
PhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at Telecom Bretagne
English, Spanish, French, German