Otto Fajardo
Senior Data Sientist Product Development Data Sciences
Basel, Basel-City, Switzerland
Summary
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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
Github Skills (112)
parser10
python10
converting10
data-manipulation10
forge10
pandas-dataframe10
genomics10
flask10
spss10
r10
dataframes10
pandas10
cvs10
rdata10
rds10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
conda-forge/pyreadstat-feedstock
May 2019 - Mar 2025
A conda-smithy repository for pyreadstat.
Contributions:64 PRs, 51 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 10 months
pythoncondasmithy
Roche/pyreadstat
Aug 2018 - Jan 2023
Python package to read sas, spss and stata files into pandas data frames. It is a wrapper for the C library readstat.
Contributions:39 releases, 4 reviews, 284 commits in 4 years 5 months
data-framespythonstata-filesc-librarysas
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