Tiago Vaz - Data Governance Lead

Tiago Vaz

Data Governance Lead

Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands

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Tiago Vaz is a Data Governance Lead with 8+ years bridging computer science, epidemiology and enterprise data strategy across healthcare and consumer goods. He combines a PhD in Epidemiology and an MBA-like executive education with hands-on experience building scalable data pipelines, causal inference for real-world evidence, and governance frameworks for Data & AI at global scale. His background spans technical leadership roles—from building national hospital information systems and coordinating multi-country EHR evidence generation to improving forecasting at Kraft Heinz—showing a rare mix of delivery, policy and research impact. An active contributor to public health modelling (notably extending palliative care features in the widely used neherlab/covid19_scenarios project), he blends open-source development with rigorous validation and UI integration. Based in Utrecht, he is known for translating complex domain requirements into auditable, reproducible data products and for fostering cross-functional teams that accelerate responsible AI adoption.

7 years of coding experience

17 years of employment as a software developer

MBA Executive Business Management Marketing and Related Support Services, MBA Executive Business Management Marketing and Related Support Services at ESPM Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing

Executive Education - Organizational Leadership - Leading Change and Organizational Renewal, Executive Education - Organizational Leadership - Leading Change and Organizational Renewal at Harvard Business School

Bacharelado Computer Science, Bacharelado Computer Science at Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul

Executive Certificate in Management and Leadership, Executive Certificate in Management and Leadership at MIT Sloan School of Management

PhD Epidemiologia, PhD Epidemiologia at Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul

English for International Business, English for International Business at University of California, Riverside

English, Portuguese, Spanish

Github Skills (15)

typescript10

javascript10

typescripts10

typescript-types10

react9

modello9

data-set8

data-model8

user-data8

modeling8

data-validation7

co7

covid-testing7

vi7

open-source7

Programming languages (3)

RustJavaScriptJupyter Notebook

Github contributions (5)

neherlab/covid19_scenarios

Jul 2020 - Mar 2021

Models of COVID-19 outbreak trajectories and hospital demand

Role in this project:

Full-stack Developer

Contributions:13 commits, 7 PRs, 10 comments in 7 months

Contributions summary:Tiago contributed to the project by implementing new features related to palliative care within the COVID-19 model. They modified the core model logic, adding palliative flux calculations and integrating these changes across multiple files, including the model definition, test data, initialization, and UI components. The user also updated the schema and validation rules to accommodate the new palliative care parameters, ensuring data integrity. Their work demonstrates a focus on extending the model's capabilities and improving its user interface.

hospitaldatancovoutbreakscience

tiagoandresvaz/covid19_scenarios

May 2020 - Dec 2022

Models of COVID-19 outbreak trajectories and hospital demand

Contributions:2 PRs, 172 pushes, 11 branches in 2 years 7 months

hospitaloutbreaktrajectoriesdemand

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