VP of Engineering at NextBio
San Francisco Bay Area
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- Vice President of Engineering at NextBio
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- Author at Manning Publications
- Consultant at Johnson & Johnson's BabyCenter
- Chief Architect at Rearden Commerce
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- University of California, Berkeley
- Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey-New Brunswick
- Birla Institute of Technology and Science
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Satnam Alag’s Summary
Dr Alag is a seasoned software professional with over eleven years of commercial software development and management experience and over fifteen years of experience in the machine learning and search areas. His areas of expertise is in building large-scale distributed SaaS applications, applying intelligence and personalization to Web 2.0 applications, SOA and J2EE architectures, delivering high quality software and building high performing engineering teams.
He is currently the VP of Engineering at NextBio, a data search engine in the life sciences areas. Prior to joining NextBio, he worked as a consultant with Johnson and Johnson's BabyCenter where he helped develop their personalization engine. Prior to that he was the Chief Software Architect and Dir. of Application Engineering at Rearden Commerce. He began his career at GE R&D and has held senior technical and management positions at Computing Technologies International and Black Pearl.
Satnam is a Sun Certified Enterprise Architect (SCEA) for the Java platform. His doctoral dissertation from the University of California, Berkeley was in the area of probabilistic reasoning and machine learning. He has a number of peer-reviewed publications, holds one patent and has a few more patents pending in the areas of distributed computing, SOA, travel, web services, and machine learning. He is the author of the book "Collective Intelligence in Action" available at http://www.manning.com/affiliate/idevaffiliate.php?id=891_113_1_23
Satnam Alag’s Specialties:
J2EE, SOA, Machine Learning, Web 2.0, Collective Intelligence, SaaS
Recommendation engines, web and text mining, search, web crawling
Satnam Alag’s Experience
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Vice President of Engineering
NextBio
(Privately Held; Biotechnology industry)
November 2007 — Present (1 year 9 months)
NextBio is the provider of an innovative platform that enables life science researchers to search, discover, and share knowledge locked within public and proprietary data. NextBio’s platform seamlessly combines powerful tools with unique correlated content to transform information into knowledge, providing the foundation for new scientific discoveries. NextBio helps organizations increase productivity and dramatically improve collaboration across therapeutic groups and geographic boundaries. NextBio is delivered as a SaaS (Software as a Service) solution resulting in quick deployment and rapid return on investment.
Today, NextBio is used by over a million researchers at the world's top commercial and academic institutions. NextBio’s enterprise solution has been deployed at Burnham Institute for Medical Research, Celgene, Eli Lilly, Genzyme, Johnson & Johnson, Regeneron, Scripps Research Institute, Stanford University, and Takeda, among many others. To learn more about NextBio, please visit our website at http://www.nextbio.com.
-a-Service (SaaS) model that enables users to search directly or via internal company sites through the NextBio Application Programming Interface (API). The enterprise version of the NextBio search engine is being used in life science R&D and drug development by researchers and clinicians at Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research & Development, L.L.C., Celgene, Genzyme, Eli Lilly and Company, and Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, among others.
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Satnam Alag’s Honors:
Sun Certified Enterprise Architect for the Java Platform (SCEA)
Sun Certified Java Programmer (SCJP 5)
Employee of the Year Award, Rearden Commerce, 2000
Distinguished Engineer, Black Pearl, 2000
James Marshall Wells Memorial Fellowship, UC Berkeley, 1996
Regents Fellowship, UC Berkeley, 1993-94
Excellence Fellowship, Rutgers, 1991-93
National Talent Scholarship, Govt. of India, 1985-91
