Summary
Janice Karin is a technology leader with over a decade of experience translating complex technical systems into clear specifications, documentation, and executable product plans. As Director of Policy, Technology, and Innovation at the Massachusetts Health Data Consortium, she blends policy insight with hands-on expertise in APIs, data models, and clinical data exchange workflows. Her background spans technical writing, product management, QA, and integration engineering across healthcare, IoT, robotics, and telecom—roles that regularly had her defining requirements, testing edge cases, and managing cross-functional delivery. Janice is fluent at quickly learning new domains and languages, having documented databases, SDKs, and REST APIs for organizations from Harvard and Sonos to SignalFx and Datawire. She often operates behind the scenes—building documentation tooling, maintaining templates, and coordinating multi-department projects—to make complex systems usable and auditable. Based in Malden, MA, she also chairs health equity workgroup efforts, signaling a practical commitment to policy impact alongside technical execution.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
academic, academic at Simon's Rock of Bard College
physics, mathematics, and statistics, physics, mathematics, and statistics at The University of New Mexico
BA with honors in physics with general honors, physics, BA with honors in physics with general honors, physics at University of Chicago
MS, physics, MS, physics at University of Pennsylvania