Aaron Wenger
Principal Scientist - Bioinformatics
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAaron Wenger is a Principal Scientist in bioinformatics with 11 years of experience applying genomics and software engineering to diagnose human disease and build production-ready tools. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he leads development of PacBio’s structural variant detection strategy and the pbsv caller while representing the company in major consortia like Genome in a Bottle and 1000 Genomes. He combines deep research experience—from a Stanford PhD in genomics and diagnosing “cold case” clinical genomes—to hands-on engineering, contributing front-end and UI improvements to the widely used Integrative Genomics Viewer (IGV). A former founder and CTO, he brings product-minded leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and a knack for turning complex genomic algorithms into usable, scalable software.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Computer Engineering, B.S., Computer Engineering at University of Notre DameDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science (Genomics), Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science (Genomics) at Stanford University
Github Skills (8)
javas10
user-interface10
bam10
java10
front-end-development9
data-visualisation9
data-visualization9
data-visualizations9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
igvteam/igv
May 2016 - Jun 2020
Integrative Genomics Viewer. Fast, efficient, scalable visualization tool for genomics data and annotations
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:61 commits, 32 PRs, 73 comments in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Aaron primarily contributed to the front-end and UI aspects of the Integrative Genomics Viewer (IGV). They implemented new features and improved existing ones related to the display of alignments, including options to label indels, highlight clipped edges, and group alignments by base at a specific position. The contributions also involved code refactoring and bug fixes to enhance the overall user experience.
scalableannotationsgenomics-datagenomicsbioinformatics
PacificBiosciences/hg002-ccs
Mar 2019 - Jul 2021
Contributions:8 commits, 3 PRs, 13 pushes in 2 years 5 months
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