Alex Kalman
Public Health Program Associate
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Kalman is a public health professional with 11 years of experience who blends program coordination and research with hands-on technical skills in cloud-backed back-end development. Based in Atlanta, they currently support public health training and dementia care initiatives at Emory while leveraging prior roles in research assistance, communications, and lab work to translate data into actionable programs. Alex has contributed code to the Hail open-source genomics project, implementing auth, MySQL-backed user data, and cloud storage integrations—evidence of a pragmatic approach to minimally-complex health services. Comfortable moving between policy, community-facing programs, and technical implementations, they bring a habit of refactoring for simplicity and efficiency to public health systems.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Public Health - MPH, Master of Public Health - MPH at Rollins School of Public Health at Emory UniversityPublic Health Education, Behavioral health, Public Health Education, Behavioral health at Kennesaw State University
Github Skills (16)
google-cloud-storage10
user-authentication10
authentication10
python10
back-end-development10
mysql10
flask10
flask-ask10
rest-api9
cloud-infrastructure9
javas3
genetics3
bioinformatics3
java3
dockers3
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
hail-is/hail
Dec 2018 - Aug 2020
Cloud-native genomic dataframes and batch computing
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:207 commits, 270 PRs, 113 pushes in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily focused on back-end development tasks, including implementing new features for an auth endpoint, adding user data handling using MySQL, and refactoring code for better organization and efficiency. They also contributed to the development of a notebook service, including handling user authentication through Auth0, managing data storage using Google Cloud Storage, and integrating the service with the batch system. The user demonstrated skills in Python and the Flask framework, as well as interacting with databases and cloud services.
scalabledata-analysispythongeneticshail
akotlar/multivariate-tada
Mar 2020 - Oct 2023
Contributions:118 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 7 months
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