OUR TEAM
Meet the team that makes it happen.
Scientists, engineers, and operators united around one mission:
that scientific work compounds, instead of disappearing.
Jim Olson
Chief Executive Officer
Leads execution, scales teams, delivers transformation.
MA – Luther Seminary • BA Mathematics – Hamline University
Dimitri Yatsenko, PhD
Founder • Chief Science & Technology Officer
Builds the foundations of scalable, reproducible science.
PhD Neuroscience – Baylor College of Medicine • MS Computer Engineering – U Utah • BS MS Computer Science – Utah State
Douglas Welsh
Chief Revenue Officer
Leads Sales and Customer Success, enabling adoption of the DataJoint Platform.
BA History – Penn State University
Thinh Nguyen, PhD
SciOps & Product Lead
Builds data platforms to transform Scientific Operations with AI and automation.
PhD Biomedical Engineering – University of Houston
Aneesa Valentine
Sr. SciOps Engineer
Building reproducible, scalable and robustly governed scientific data pipelines for AI-driven workflows.
MS Bioinformatics – Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Elissa Sutlief, PhD
SciOps Engineer
Builds data pipelines for efficient, reproducible research.
PhD Neuroscience – Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Milagros Marín, PhD
SciOps Engineer
Builds and drives adoption of research data workflows for scalable discovery and trustworthy AI.
PhD Neuroscience • MS Translational Research • BS Biochemistry – U Granada
Matthew Weitzel
Principal Software Engineer
Builds the platform your science runs on. 15 years of production systems, from startups to enterprise.
BS in Computer Science – Eastern Michigan
Kaushik PMV
Sr Engineer – Platform Engineering / DevOps / Site Reliability
Builds, automates, and hardens the cloud platform your science runs on — from clusters to compliance.
MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering – UNCC
Vince Paton
Director of Sales
Helps scientific organizations solve their business challenges through traceable, reproducible data pipelines.
MS Molecular Biology, San Diego State University • BA Biological Sciences, University of California Santa Barbara
Ashley Salvador
Manager, Finance & Operations
Ensures strong financial management and efficient day to day operations.
BS in Accounting – UMass Dartmouth
BACKED BY
Investors and advisors who believe in the foundation.
The people backing DataJoint's mission, supporting the next phase of growth across pharma R&D, academic medical centers, and research institutions.
Investors
Strategic Advisors & Board
Dave Schuette
Board of Directors
Pharma-tech veteran. Brings deep experience in pharmaceutical R&D and Agentic AI transformation.
John Apathy
Strategic Advisor
Industry leader supporting AI-powered transformation in life sciences research.
Brian Napack
Strategic Advisor
Decades of expertise in education, scientific research, and technology. Supports DataJoint's mission to revolutionize data management and AI.
WORKING WITH US
Help us build the foundation underneath the science.
We're hiring across SciOps engineering, platform development, and commercial roles. If you want to work on problems that make science compound instead of disappear, we want to talk.