John Damask
AI Shephard at AMROJA
Somerville, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Damask is an AI-focused technology leader with 10+ years of experience building cloud platforms, data systems, and teams that accelerate scientific discovery and biotech innovation. Formerly Global Head of Cloud and head of biological data at Novartis and VP of Digital Science at Flagship Pioneering, he has created operational backbones used across dozens of biotech companies and scaled platforms supporting hundreds of researchers. Now leading AMROJA as an "AI Shephard," he experiments with and deploys AI coding agents and GenAI programs to push practical boundaries across organizations. Known for hiring people smarter than himself and for a bias toward action balanced by strategic caution, he blends hands-on engineering, governance, and community-building. Based in Somerville, MA, he shares much of his work publicly across GitHub, Substack and his site, driven by a restless curiosity to chase what he doesn't yet know.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Musicology, BA, Musicology at New York UniversityNon-degree, Bioinformatics, Non-degree, Bioinformatics at Brandeis University
Github Skills (21)
document-processing9
agentic7
unstructured-data7
python7
bluetooth-low-energy5
etl5
llm5
claude4
aws-iot4
slack4
data-pipelines4
raspberry-pi4
iot3
elt3
esp323
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
jbdamask/jbdamask.github.io
Nov 2023 - Jul 2026
Contributions:127 pushes, 3 branches, 1 issue in 2 years 7 months
jbdamask/Books
Aug 2018 - Jan 2019
Contributions:61 commits, 60 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
book-reviews
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