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 (20)
iot-application7
bluetooth-low-energy6
raspberry6
connectivity6
energy6
bluetooth5
iot-framework4
aws-iot4
raspberry-pi4
iot3
aws3
esp323
prepare2
multimodal1
imaging1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
jbdamask/TrickyTriangle
Jul 2018 - Mar 2025
Algorithm to solve Tricky Triangle puzzle of any size
Contributions:3 PRs, 37 pushes, 5 branches in 6 years 9 months
solvepuzzletriangletricky
jbdamask/PiHubBleAwsIoT
Apr 2018 - Aug 2018
Makes a Raspberry Pi a Bluetooth Low Energy device hub with IoT connectivity so multiple devices can share states
Contributions:1 release, 90 commits, 2 PRs in 4 months
connectivityraspberry-piraspberrybluetoothbluetooth-low-energy
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