Jason Adams
Vice President, Head Of Biopharma Business Development at The Nightscout Foundation
Carlsbad, California, United States
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Top SchoolJason Adams is a biopharma business development executive with over 20 years of experience structuring high-value collaborations, in‑licensing technologies, and leading due diligence and M&A efforts across diagnostics and pharma. As VP and Head of Biopharma Business Development at Foundation Medicine (and former global head of companion diagnostic partnering at Roche), he has negotiated deals generating hundreds of millions in value and managed alliances with 75+ pharma partners. He pairs commercial discipline—MBA-trained in finance—with hands-on scientific grounding from a BS in Molecular and Cellular Biology, enabling him to bridge R&D, commercial, and strategic planning teams. An operator as comfortable building teams and P&Ls as crafting complex CDx partnerships, he also founded the Nightscout open-source diabetes project, reflecting a long-standing commitment to patient-centered technology. Less obvious: he contributes to developer-focused open-source projects (including Work on GraphQL/Laravel and WordPress payment integrations), showing a practical fluency with developer ecosystems that informs modern diagnostic-platform partnerships.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
MBA Finance, MBA Finance at UCLA Anderson School of ManagementThe University of Arizona
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (26)
paypal10
lighthouse10
laravel-mix10
wordpress10
payment-gateway10
laravel10
wpgraphql10
php10
api10
gateway10
wordpress-graphql10
pagination10
graphql10
database-migrations9
phpunit9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
impress-org/givewp
Mar 2020 - Jan 2023
GiveWP - The #1 Donation Plugin for WordPress. Easily accept donations and fundraise using your WordPress website.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:117 releases, 948 reviews, 898 commits in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Jason implemented a new PayPal Checkout payment gateway for the GiveWP WordPress plugin, including both the back-end PHP code and necessary database structures. This involved creating interfaces for payment gateways, building a PayPal Commerce module, adding database migrations to support webhook events, and refactoring existing payment gateway functionalities. They focused on core functionalities related to accepting donations.
ecommerceaccept-donationswordpressphpwordpress-site
nuwave/lighthouse
Jul 2019 - Feb 2020
A framework for serving GraphQL from Laravel
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:23 commits, 4 PRs, 43 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Jason primarily focused on enhancing the Lighthouse GraphQL framework for Laravel. Their contributions included adding new directives and features related to pagination, specifically implementing custom edge types and pivot data support. They also made code styling corrections and addressed bugs by adapting code to the 4.x way of accessing AST types. Furthermore, the user added tests to validate the behavior of the new features.
servinglighthouse-phpphplaravel-graphqllighthouse
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