Alex Hancock
Senior Software Engineer at X, The Moonshot Factory
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Hancock is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of experience building cloud-native infrastructure and production genomics pipelines, currently at X, The Moonshot Factory after a three-year senior engineering role at Verily. He combines a strong MS-level foundation in computer science with hands-on DevOps expertise—managing multi-account AWS environments, petabytes on S3, Kubernetes/Argo and Nextflow workflows—to run thousands of automated genomics analyses annually. Alex has a track record of shipping internal tooling that automates workflow submission, monitoring, and cost tracking, and has contributed to open-source provisioning and workflow compatibility efforts for genomics platforms. Based in California, he blends data science and ML research experience with pragmatic systems engineering, often focusing on cost-optimization and reproducible pipelines that bridge research and production.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoUniversity of California Santa Cruz
Github Skills (23)
metadata9
indexer9
api7
bioinformatics6
genomics5
pipeline5
dashboard5
provisioning4
compose4
manifest4
vms4
docker3
docker-compose3
file-browser3
browser3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Mewzyk/CS115-Project
Apr 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:19 commits, 2 PRs, 18 pushes in 1 month
BD2KGenomics/consonance
Aug 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:1 release, 2 PRs, 29 pushes in 3 months
provisioningvmsschedulingreportingconsonance
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