Adam Orr
Staff Bioinformatics Engineer
San Diego, California, United States
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Top SchoolAdam Orr is a Staff Bioinformatics Engineer in San Diego with 11 years of experience building performant, production-ready bioinformatics methods and software. He brings a rare blend of deep molecular biology training (PhD) and pragmatic engineering skills across R, Python, and C++, with a focus on statistical rigor, quality, and performance optimization. At Illumina he progressed from Bioinformatics Engineer to Staff, driving method development and mentoring teams while supervising research in academic roles earlier in his career. Known for applying software engineering best practices to complex biological problems, he excels at turning research-grade analyses into robust, maintainable pipelines. A mathematician by undergraduate training as well, he often leverages quantitative thinking to improve algorithmic efficiency and experimental reproducibility.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Molecular and Cellular Biology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Molecular and Cellular Biology at Arizona State University
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (49)
mer10
genome10
spark10
next-generation-sequencing10
gatk10
sequencing10
bioinformatics10
genomics10
science10
jupyter9
discord9
brightscript9
stable9
python9
jupyterlab9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
adamjorr/adamjorr.github.io
May 2015 - Oct 2020
Contributions:61 pushes, 1 branch, 1 issue in 5 years 6 months
adamjorr/kbbq-py
Aug 2018 - Oct 2020
k-mer based base quality recalibration
Contributions:485 commits, 391 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 2 months
recalibrationbrightscriptmerbarragek-mer
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