Otto Fajardo
Senior Data Sientist Product Development Data Sciences
Basel, Basel-City, Switzerland
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Top SchoolOtto Fajardo is a Senior Data Scientist with over a decade of experience applying advanced Python, R and SQL skills to real-world, clinical and pre-clinical datasets in the biopharma space. At Roche he combines epidemiology, survival analysis and machine/deep learning on multimodal EHR and clinicogenomics data to support drug development and build production-ready tooling (Docker, CI/CD, Redshift). His background as a neuroscientist and trained dentist gives him a rare cross-disciplinary perspective that bridges wet-lab biology, clinical workflows and data engineering. He has led data stewardship initiatives—building an internal RWD catalog, Python/R packages and Airflow pipelines—and actively fosters internal Python user communities. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic solutions that translate complex scientific questions into reproducible, scalable analytics.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Dentist, Dentistry, Dentist, Dentistry at Universidad Nacional Federico VillarrealPhD, Neuroscience, PhD, Neuroscience at Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elchecolegio reina del mundomaster, biochemistry, master, biochemistry at Universidad Francisco de Vitoria
Spanish, English, German, Portuguese
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Github Skills (99)
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
conda-forge/pyreadr-feedstock
Feb 2019 - Apr 2026
A conda-smithy repository for pyreadr.
Contributions:1 review, 57 PRs, 53 pushes in 7 years 3 months
conda
ofajardo/pyreadr-feedstock
Apr 2020 - Mar 2025
A conda-smithy repository for pyreadr.
Contributions:2 PRs, 19 pushes in 4 years 11 months
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