Alan Cleary
Staff Software Engineer at TileDB
Bozeman, Montana, United States
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Top SchoolAlan Cleary is a Staff Software Engineer at TileDB with 11+ years building open-source scientific software that bridges research-grade algorithms and production systems. He specializes in applied algorithms, succinct data structures, and high-performance implementations for pangenomics and multiomic analysis, often implementing computation directly on compressed representations. His work blends C++, Python, and modern engineering practices (microservices, gRPC, Docker) to scale research workflows into robust tooling, and he actively applies ML and LLM techniques to regulatory inference and gene-expression prediction. With a PhD focused on algorithms for pangenomics and deep experience in both research and engineering roles, he uniquely combines theoretical rigor with pragmatic system design. Based in Bozeman, MT, he maintains a long track record of grant-backed research and open-source contributions that make complex computational biology problems tractable in production.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Mathematics, Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Mathematics, Computer Science at Western State CollegeDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science at Montana State University-Bozeman10-12, 10-12 at School of Environmental StudiesEagan Senior High School
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Github Skills (109)
python10
annotations10
genomes10
genomics10
microservices10
grpc-web10
grpc10
angular10
derived10
docker10
redis10
intermine10
gwas10
federation10
bioinformatics10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
legumeinfo/taxon-symbology
Aug 2023 - May 2025
A TypeScript library for consistent coloring of visualizations by genus & species.
Contributions:1 release, 3 reviews, 22 PRs in 1 year 9 months
typescriptvisualizations
alancleary/FRAS
Nov 2023 - Oct 2024
Contributions:3 releases, 2 PRs, 29 pushes in 11 months
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