Dave Johnson
Co-founder & CEO at Dash Bio
Greater Boston United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDave Johnson is a biotech-focused technology executive and founder with 11+ years building data, software, and AI capabilities that accelerate drug discovery and development. As Moderna’s former Chief Data and AI Officer he led 200+ practitioners, launched an internal AI Academy with Carnegie Mellon, and drove R&D tech used in mRNA vaccine work and automated sequencing QC that processed millions of samples. Now as Co-founder & CEO of Dash Bio in Greater Boston, he combines hands-on engineering roots—contributing to open-source tooling like an XLSX parser—with enterprise strategy to scale data platforms, self-service analytics, and digital R&D. Trained as a physicist (PhD) and holding a biotechnology master’s from Johns Hopkins, he blends scientific rigor with product-minded execution. He’s known for turning lab automation and informatics projects into high-throughput, production-ready systems and for bridging collaborations with partners like IBM on quantum initiatives.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Physics, PhD Physics at University at AlbanyJohns Hopkins University
Github Skills (5)
xlsx10
nodejs10
javascript10
excel10
testing10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (3)
dtjohnson/xlsx-populate
Mar 2015 - Mar 2019
Excel XLSX parser/generator written in JavaScript with Node.js and browser support, jQuery/d3-style method chaining, encryption, and a focus on keeping existing workbook features and styles in tact.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:27 commits in 4 years
Contributions summary:Dave's primary contributions involve developing and maintaining the core functionality of an Excel XLSX parser/generator. They focused on implementing and refining key features such as parsing and generating XLSX files, as demonstrated by the addition of test utilities and functionalities. Further contributions include the implementation of workbook, cell, and sheet level functionalities, which involved the use of JavaScript, and interaction with the internal structure of XLSX files. The user also refactored the codebase.
browser-supportencryptionexceljavascriptjquery
dtjohnson/typeshield
Dec 2019 - Jan 2020
A collection of composable TypeScript/JavaScript type guards and assertions
Contributions:29 commits in 1 month
assertionjavascripttype-guardstypescript
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