Summary
Martin Frigaard is a Senior Application Developer and co-founder who brings over a decade of hands-on experience turning clinical and organizational data into actionable insights through R, Shiny, and reproducible tooling. He has built and maintained production Shiny apps and internal R packages for pharmaceutical and public-health environments, and served as a Posit System Administrator for CDC’s EDAV platform. As a certified tidyverse trainer and longtime data-journalism contributor, he pairs technical depth with a talent for teaching—creating workshops, tutorials, and training materials that scale skills across teams. His work spans clinical programming, high-performance data engineering, and interactive visualization, with notable projects including a 3D risk visualization for the Diabetes Technology Society. Based in Chandler, AZ, he also runs Paradigm Data Group to help organizations tell better stories with data and embed evidence-based decision making. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic, open-source-first solutions that bridge research, production, and pedagogy.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts - MA, Kinesiology and Exercise Science, Master of Arts - MA, Kinesiology and Exercise Science at California State University, Chico
Master's degree, Clinical Research, Master's degree, Clinical Research at University of California, San Francisco