Paolo Ciccarese
Technical Director, Data Engineering
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPaolo Ciccarese is a Technical Director in Data Engineering with over 16 years of experience building semantically aware search and knowledge graph platforms for biomedical research. He leads Novartis’ search and knowledge graph capabilities within the data42 initiative, applying deep expertise in ontologies, Semantic Web technologies, and scalable search across heterogeneous scientific and public data. Paolo combines an academic pedigree—PhD in Bioengineering/Bioinformatics and a postdoc at Harvard—with hands-on engineering roles that span Elasticsearch, Spark, RDF, and full-stack search UX. He has a long track record of translating clinical and research needs into production systems, from founding EPR startups to deploying enterprise-grade indexing and ontology-enhanced search. As co-chair of the W3C Open Annotation Community Group, he also influences standards for annotating digital resources, a less obvious but influential thread through his work. Based in Boston, he blends research rigor with pragmatic system delivery to make biomedical data more discoverable and actionable.
16 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at Università di PaviaPostdoc, Medical Informatics, Postdoc, Medical Informatics at Harvard University
English, Italian
Github Skills (30)
search-engine10
java10
opensearch9
elasticsearch-plugin9
restful9
elasticsearch9
gwt8
security7
tenancy7
annotator7
authentication7
backend7
encryption6
api6
authorization6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Annotopia/Annotopia
May 2014 - Apr 2016
Contributions:161 commits, 20 pushes, 6 comments in 1 year 11 months
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