Alex Pickering
Senior Bioinformatics Engineer
British Columbia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Pickering is a Senior Bioinformatics Engineer with a decade of experience building scalable, cost-efficient platforms that turn high-throughput genomics data into actionable biology. At Harvard Medical School he leads full-stack development for single-cell and multi-omics tools, cutting AWS costs by 30%, speeding data exploration 7x, and inventing clever dependency workarounds to stay compliant. He founded RNA Meta Analysis, creating the largest searchable GEO-derived gene expression database via a serverless architecture and ML-driven deconvolution to aid drug discovery. Alex pairs rigorous, detail-oriented analyses (including an unconventional RNA-based discovery in SJIA lung disease) with polished data visualization and performance optimization, and he’s equally comfortable shipping production systems and taking on hands-on engineering projects outside the lab.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Honours Biochemistry, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Honours Biochemistry at The University of British ColumbiaBiology of Aging, Glenn Foundation Fellow, Biology of Aging, Glenn Foundation Fellow at Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio
English
Stackoverflow
151reputation
6kreached
1answer
4questions
Github Skills (200)
python10
seq10
cffi10
transcriptomics10
gene-expression10
spatial10
genomics10
clustering10
shinyproxy10
dimensionality-reduction10
reactive10
r10
shiny10
htmlwidgets10
single-cell-analysis10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
alexvpickering/ccdata
Apr 2016 - Sep 2020
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 5 months
alexvpickering/alexvpickering.github.io
Jun 2016 - Aug 2019
Contributions:102 pushes in 3 years 3 months
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