Joshua Nowak
Associate Director, Software Engineering Digital For Research & TechDev
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolJoshua Nowak is an engineering leader with a decade of experience building and scaling scientific software platforms, currently serving as Associate Director of Software Engineering at Moderna’s Digital for Research & TechDev. He translates complex R&D workflows into secure, reliable digital systems that accelerate decision-making in drug discovery, combining hands-on engineering with product and team leadership. His background spans lab automation, assay automation for DARPA SD2, and end-to-end protocol automation at Strateos, reflecting deep fluency at the intersection of biology and software. Trained in bioengineering (UC Berkeley) and biomedical engineering (ASU), he pairs domain expertise with practical tooling—often using Python and cloud-native patterns—to turn experimental pipelines into production-grade services. Notably, he has managed multi-million dollar assay budgets and built internal developer tooling like lint engines that improved code quality across scientific teams.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering at University of California, BerkeleyMaster of Science (M.S.) Biomedical/Medical Engineering, Master of Science (M.S.) Biomedical/Medical Engineering at Arizona State UniversityBASIS Scottsdale
Github Skills (1)
python5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
jdnowak94/test_push
Aug 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
jdnowak94/rombot
Jul 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
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