Alexander Stram
Director, Bioinformatics Engineering
Del Mar, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexander Stram is a bioinformatics engineering leader with 11 years of experience designing and optimizing high-throughput genomic pipelines, currently driving work at Personalis in Del Mar, CA. He has repeatedly scaled sequencing workflows—cutting compute costs by nearly half on a 90,000-sample contract, increasing pipeline parallelism 10x, and doubling read compression through novel preprocessing—while exploring FPGA/GPU acceleration for primary and secondary analysis. His background spans translational and commercial product launches (including liquid biopsy/Oncotype SEQ) and large cohort GWAS work at USC, blending deep algorithmic skill with practical HPC and cloud deployments. Alex pairs advanced mathematical training (MA in Mathematics) with hands-on systems engineering, and is known for reliably delivering high-quality, operationalized solutions that bridge R&D and production.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
M.A Mathematics, M.A Mathematics at University of Southern CaliforniaSt. Francis High School, La Canada, CALondon School of Economics and Political Science
Github Skills (103)
slurm10
dataflow10
reproducible-science10
singularity10
nextflow10
pipeline10
bcftools10
tabix10
groovy10
dsl10
reproducible-research10
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samtools10
aws10
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
ahstram/transpos
Apr 2018 - Jul 2020
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
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