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title: "Altaf Hussain - Programmer / Analyst in Greater Bengaluru Area | Tal"
description: "Meet Altaf Hussain, Clinical Data Science Programmer | Study Lead | Medidata Rave, Zelta & Veeva EDC | Custom Functions | SAS, PL/SQL, JReview | Clinical Trials based in Greater Bengaluru Area. AI stack includes claude code, gemini, and openai."
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# Altaf Hussain on Tal

## Headline

Clinical Data Science Programmer \| Study Lead \| Medidata Rave, Zelta & Veeva EDC \| Custom Functions \| SAS, PL/SQL, JReview \| Clinical Trials

## About

Clinical Data Science Programmer with 5\+ years of experience in the CRO industry, delivering EDC build and clinical data programming for global studies at IQVIA and ICON\. I work as Study Lead and maintenance programmer, owning programming from eCRF design and edit checks to custom functions, listings, vendor data integration, and reporting\. My core stack is Medidata Rave, Zelta EDC, Veeva EDC, JReview, SAS, PL/SQL, and C\#, with a strong grounding in GCP, regulatory compliance, and data quality\. What I bring: • End\-to\-end study programming across startup, PPC, and global maintenance studies with medidata Rave, Zelta, Veeva,PLSQL, Jreview, SAS\. • Process optimization and troubleshooting of complex data issues • Training and mentoring Data Management teams on Rave, JReview, and SAS

## Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

## AI stack

claude code

gemini

openai

## Work experience

Programmer / Analyst at IQVIA, Oct 2025 \- Present · 1 yr 2 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, \* Lead end\-to\-end clinical study programming as Study Lead, from EDC build to database lock support Design, edit, Custom Function and optimize Medidata Rave EDC studies, \*Build and configure studies in Zelta EDC \*Veeva EDC trained; applying it to clinical data management workflows

Clinical Data Science Programmer at ICON plc, Oct 2022 \- Sep 2025 · 3 yrs, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, \* Experienced on Medidata rave eCRF Design, EDIT checks, and custom functions, BO reports, EDC\. \* Veeva EDC Trained\. \* Lead to numerous startups and PPC studies\. \* Experienced on Jreview and PLSQL: skilled with Listings, Data quality Analytics, Patient profile, ad hoc Custom reports, Database setup for jreview, Specification review and development\. \* Serve as maintenance programmer on Global studies\. \* Review validation specs and help to prepare spec\. \* Vendor DTS review, setup and regular vendor data upload\. \* Sas Listings, Vendor import setup\. \* Regular data upload of Medidata in database and CRF mapping for Tableau \* Live session and training on process and programming/ validation work to Data Management Professionals \* Provided training on Rave, Jreview, Sas Various works

Associate Clinical System Developer at ICON plc, Jul 2021 \- Oct 2022 · 1 yr 4 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, \* Developed EDIT checks, dynamics and eCRF design\. \* Writing queries and Creating reports for data validation outputs, custom reports and programs \* Setting up JReview for Medidata\. \* vendor setup and Regular data refresh of Medidata in database\.

Post Graduate Diploma in Clinical Database Build and Clinical Data Management at Quartesian, Mar 2021 \- Jun 2021 · 4 mos, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

\.NET Internship on Live project at Cognis Solutions, Sep 2020 \- Jan 2021 · 5 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Construction Project Engineer at Baruni Civil consultant’s pvt\.ltd, Jul 2019 \- Aug 2020 · 1 yr 2 mos, Banglore

## Education

Bachelor's degree, Civil Engineering, Visvesvaraya Technological University

Bachelor's degree, Civil Engineering, G MADEGOWDA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, MANDYA

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