AJ Aitken

AJ Aitken

SVP of Infrastructure & Platform Engineering at Datavant, building secure healthcare systems.

AJ Aitken runs infrastructure and platform engineering at Datavant, overseeing the systems that power healthcare data collaboration. His teams span cloud infrastructure, site reliability, and machine learning, building secure foundations that balance strict regulatory rigor with the speed to innovate.

Prior to Datavant, AJ spent 14 years scaling the technology behind Apixio’s healthcare analytics platform. He focuses on how AI shifts the way engineering organizations work, exploring these themes in his talk on the new rules of software delivery and modern DevOps practices.

Originally from Australia, AJ is now based in San Diego.