David Ranum
Senior Scientist-AI ML Software Engineering at Merative
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Ranum is a senior scientist and AI/ML software engineer specializing in healthcare data, technology, and analytics, with over a decade of industry experience. Currently at Merative after seven years at IBM Watson Health, he brings deep domain expertise turning clinical and medical informatics research into production-ready analytic solutions. He earned a Ph.D. in Medical Informatics and pairs rigorous academic training with practical software engineering from roles spanning research labs, higher education leadership, and a teaching-focused startup he co-founded. His background as a college department head and CIO informs a collaborative, systems-level approach to data platforms and tooling. Known for bridging the gap between research and applied engineering, he focuses on creating reproducible, clinically relevant ML systems rather than bleeding-edge novelty. Based in Madison, WI, he blends long-term institutional knowledge with startup agility to solve complex healthcare data problems.
11 years of coding experience
37 years of employment as a software developer
M.S., Computer Science, M.S., Computer Science at Iowa State UniversityPh.D., Medical Informatics, Ph.D., Medical Informatics at University of Utah School of MedicineBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Mathematics and Computer Science at Luther College
Github Skills (20)
highlight10
combine10
patternfly9
health7
health-data5
updating4
nlp4
medical3
jax-rs3
extraction3
analytics2
jdbc2
named-entity-recognition2
kubernetes2
natural-language-processing2
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
LinuxForHealth/health-analytics
Feb 2021 - Mar 2022
A collection of documentation and analytic solutions that can be applied to health data.
Contributions:14 reviews, 8 PRs, 7 pushes in 1 year
health-dataanalyticsanalytichealthapplied
ranum/misc
Jan 2021 - Dec 2021
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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