Alexander Falk
Director, Bioinformatics
Emeryville, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexander Falk is a Director of Bioinformatics with 11 years of experience building NGS and single-cell analysis pipelines, R Shiny apps, and AWS-backed computational infrastructure to support translational research in CAR-T therapies. He has progressed from hands-on scientist and PhD-trained biophysicist to leader and manager at Kite Pharma, contributing to two IND filings and a pending patent while shaping cloud-native analysis platforms. Known for tailoring solutions through close scientific collaboration, he balances algorithm and pipeline development with pragmatic infrastructure design and reproducible delivery. His background in self-taught computational modeling during a biophysics PhD and experience cofounding a bioinformatics consultancy give him an uncommon blend of entrepreneurial drive and deep domain expertise.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Medical Biophysics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Medical Biophysics at Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern CaliforniaBachelor's degree Biochemistry, Bachelor's degree Biochemistry at University of Maryland
Github Skills (60)
ai10
console9
codex9
windows9
keybase9
command-line9
swift9
windows-terminal8
cmd8
xbrl8
sqlite-database8
claude8
end-to-end-encryption8
pgp8
monitoring7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
altova/altova-server-docker
Mar 2025 - Oct 2025
Contributions:2 pushes in 7 months
altova/sec-xbrl
Sep 2014 - Oct 2014
XBRL.US Webinar: How to download and process SEC XBRL Data Directly from EDGAR
Contributions:7 commits in 17 days
xbrl
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