A working engineer's career, written down.

I'm Dominic J Maratt. ServoSoft LLC is the consulting practice I'm building for what comes after thirty years inside biotech and pharmaceutical IT — most recently as Associate Director of Clinical Development Systems at Alnylam Pharmaceuticals.

The shape of the work has shifted over the decades — from 8-bit microprocessorbased Computer Peripheral design at the start, to clinical data systems and validated GxP infrastructure through the middle, to cloud architecture and AI agent platforms now. The constant has been an interest in systems that actually run: that hold up under audit, scale past their first user, and survive the people who built them.

Background

M.Tech in Physical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. M.Sc. in Physics from Kerala University. Roughly forty years of systems engineering experience starting from Advanced Medical Instrumentation and continuing into enterprise pharma IT.

How I got here

The recent work has been wide-ranging by design. A clinical pharmacometrics platform on AWS for twenty-five users — NONMEM on AWS PCS with Slurm, Posit Workbench on EKS, FSx ONTAP, AWS WorkSpaces with Phoenix WinNonlin and Pirana, identity stitched across Managed AD, Centrify, and Okta. A validated SAS 9.4M9 deployment for nearly three hundred users. A multi-agent platform on ECS/Fargate built to learn the patterns. A local LLM clinical-trial document analyzer running Qwen 2.5 against a SQL Server backend. Retrospective GxP validation packages where the original documentation didn't exist.

Outside the day job: a custom four-channel Class D power amplifier I'm fabricating from a fresh chassis design, a UniFi network spread across three homes, twenty-five Enphase microinverters on the Acton roof, and a Home Assistant deployment that's slowly absorbing the rest of the house.

What I want to do next

ServoSoft is the consulting front for that work. I'm interested in engagements where the technical decisions still matter — where the person doing the architecture is also the person who understands the regulatory context, and where "this needs to pass an inspection in three years" is part of the brief from day one.

If that sounds like something you're working on, get in touch.