Yohann Potier
Senior Director, Data Platform
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolYohann Potier is a seasoned data-platform and informatics leader in the biotech space, currently guiding data strategy and architecture as Senior Director, Data Platform at Tessera Therapeutics in Cambridge, MA. With a background spanning biomedicine, bioinformatics, chemoinformatics, and data management, he has shaped data architectures, governance, and analytics across discovery and clinical development. He previously directed data platform initiatives at Tessera and led data science and informatics at Voyager Therapeutics, aligning data capabilities with research and regulatory needs. At Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, he built cross-disciplinary informatics teams and led biologics platform informatics efforts, delivering scalable data solutions and pipelines for biology, cell and gene therapy, and neuroscience. He has hands-on experience deploying data warehouses, ETL/ELT pipelines, ontologies, and analytics in AWS and on-prem environments, and holds advanced degrees including a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Zürich and MS in Biotechnology and Informatics with honors. Based in the Boston area, he combines deep scientific domain knowledge with strategic leadership to turn complex experimental data into actionable insights.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Biotechnology and Informatics, with honors, Master's degree, Biotechnology and Informatics, with honors at Université de PoitiersMaster of Science (M.S.), Cell/Cellular and Molecular Biology, with honors, Master of Science (M.S.), Cell/Cellular and Molecular Biology, with honors at Université de Rennes IPh.D., Chemistry, Ph.D., Chemistry at Universität Zürich
French, English, German, Spanish
Github Skills (34)
avs8
obsidian8
maintenance-mode7
sdk6
cheminformatics6
python6
maintenance6
development-environment5
java5
rdkit5
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rstudio4
drawing4
c-plus-plus4
docker-desktop4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ypotier/corise-dagster
Aug 2022 - Sep 2022
Contributions:12 PRs, 19 pushes, 9 branches in 1 month
ypotier/Developing-Data-Products
Jul 2019 - Jul 2019
Contributions:20 pushes, 4 branches, 1 comment in 18 days
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