Alejandro Barrera
Bioinformatician Sr
Durham, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlejandro Barrera is a senior bioinformatician with over 10 years of experience designing and implementing reproducible analysis pipelines for high-throughput genomics at institutions including Duke University and the University of Pennsylvania. He leads and mentors bioinformatics teams, builds tools to turn sequencing data into biological hypotheses, and routinely evaluates and integrates cutting-edge methods for unconventional data types like CRISPR screens. With formal training in computer science and a master’s in bioinformatics from Universidad Complutense de Madrid, he blends software engineering discipline with hands-on biostatistical analysis and workflow automation. Alejandro is also experienced in developing user-facing tools and teaching scientists through hands-on workshops, making complex computational methods accessible to researchers. An early career background in comparative proteomics and web-enabled lab tools gives him a rare mix of systems programming, data integration, and domain knowledge in genomics.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Bioinformatics and Computacional Biology, Master, Bioinformatics and Computacional Biology at Universidad Complutense de MadridGithub contributions (1)
barale/majiq-voila-elife
Nov 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:26 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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