Asher Baltzell
Sr Manager, Bioinformatics Infrastructure
Durham, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAsher Baltzell is a senior bioinformatics infrastructure leader with 11 years of experience architecting cloud-native cyberinfrastructure that powers genomic research and machine learning at scale. Currently Sr Manager, Bioinformatics Infrastructure at Kriya Therapeutics, he has progressed from hands-on engineering to management while designing reproducible research environments used by dozens of scientists. His background includes leading bioinformatics teams at Ancestry and contributing to peer-reviewed genomic methods during a PhD at the University of Arizona, where he also taught computational infrastructure. Known for streamlining scientific workflows and accelerating discovery (including projects that enabled identification of hundreds of genetic communities), he blends deep domain knowledge with practical systems engineering. Outside work he signals a long-term commitment to scientific progress—"Hail Science ♾️ Create the Future"—and brings a curiosity that spans genomics to astronomy.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Arizona
Github Skills (72)
python10
automation10
orchestration10
scheduler10
monitor10
data-science10
apache10
machine-learning10
data-engineering9
elt9
data-integration9
mlops9
etl9
genomics9
ide9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
acic2015/findr
Nov 2015 - Sep 2017
Contributions:1 release, 191 commits, 12 PRs in 1 year 10 months
pythonfits-imagecomputer-visionimage-processingfits
asherkhb/plotly-demo
Sep 2016 - Jan 2022
Genomics with Plot.ly demonstration materials
Contributions:9 commits, 3 PRs, 9 pushes in 5 years 5 months
bioinformaticsplotpythongenomics
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