Michael Italia
Principal at Vettaris LLC
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Italia is a founder and product-engineering leader with 25 years of experience turning biomedical data into actionable insights for researchers, clinicians, and life-science companies. He has led bioinformatics and translational research teams at GSK and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, scaled product and engineering at Syapse through its shift from precision medicine to real-world evidence, and built an AWS healthcare and life sciences product organization. Now at Vettaris he couples deep domain expertise with hands-on engineering to build AI-driven solutions without handoffs, moving from strategy to implementation himself. His rare ability to speak product-market fit with CEOs, mechanisms of action with researchers, care pathways with oncologists, and systems architecture with engineers lets him iterate quickly and deliver impact. Based in Philadelphia, he blends academic training in biotechnology and biochemistry with real-world operational experience across industry and clinical settings. He deliberately returned to being a maker when AI expanded what a single domain expert can achieve, positioning him to tackle high-leverage problems end-to-end.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, BS, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Penn State UniversityMaster's, Biotechnology, Master's, Biotechnology at University of Pennsylvania
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Github Skills (25)
cross-database7
macos6
medical6
database6
ssh6
sql6
jdbc6
java6
svn6
mysql6
database-access5
postgresql4
scala4
sqlite4
etl3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
chop-dbhi/dataexpress
Jul 2013 - Sep 2013
[NOT MAINTAINED] DataExpress is a simple, Scala-based cross database ETL toolkit supporting Postgres, MySql, Oracle, SQLServer, and Sqlite
Contributions:14 commits in 2 months
datawarehousesqlserverdb2mysqldatabase-access
chop-dbhi/varify
Oct 2013 - Oct 2013
Contributions:2 commits in 20 days
dna-sequencingwarehousepipelineclinicaldna
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