Summary
Mark Aquino is a Principal Data Scientist II based in Greater Boston with over a decade of experience applying bioinformatics, genomics, and big-data engineering to biologics and immunotherapy programs. He combines hands-on full-stack development, HPC and cloud compute design, and dataops/devops practices to deliver production scientific software and scalable analysis pipelines. At AbbVie he progressed through roles leading software teams and enterprise data operations, building reproducible workflows for high-throughput genomic analysis. Prior work at Genedata and Knome sharpened his skills in custom database integrations, algorithm development for variant annotation, and customer-facing technical consulting. Comfortable across Java, Perl, SQL/Oracle, Unix and R, he blends deep domain knowledge with pragmatic engineering to accelerate R&D insights. Colleagues rely on him for bridging complex scientific requirements into maintainable, production-ready systems.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Biochemistry, Bachelor of Science Biochemistry at Union College
Master of Science Bioinformatics, Master of Science Bioinformatics at Northeastern University
Boston Latin School