Ben Ainscough
Owner, Founder & Chief AI Strategist
Salt Lake City Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolBen Ainscough is an AI and data leader with 12 years of experience founding and scaling AI initiatives across startups and enterprise SaaS. As Founder and Chief AI Strategist at Codon and former Head of AI at Domo and Senior Director at Allurion, he has delivered revenue-generating AI products, built LLM-powered agents, and led ML-ops and data platform strategies. He pairs hands-on technical execution—designing multilingual LLM health coaches, automated data analysis systems, and 30+ API/data products—with talent building and VC due diligence for AI investments. His PhD-trained background in human and statistical genetics underpins a rare depth in bioinformatics and applied ML, evidenced by Nature publications and clinical genomics tooling. Known for turning complex research-grade methods into production systems, he focuses on pragmatic AI adoption that drives measurable business outcomes. Based in Salt Lake City, he offers consulting engagements like the AI Jumpstart to rapidly operationalize AI strategies.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Human and Statistical Genetics, PhD Human and Statistical Genetics at Washington University in St. LouisBrigham Young University-IdahoBachelor of Science Bioinformatics, Bachelor of Science Bioinformatics at Brigham Young University
Github Skills (36)
interpretation10
package-management10
bam10
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conda10
forge10
genomes10
rna-seq10
bioinformatics10
differential-expression10
transcriptomics9
bioconda9
genomics9
coordinate-systems8
chip-seq8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
griffithlab/convert_zero_one_based
Jan 2017 - Jul 2018
Python CLI to convert between zero and one based genomic coordinate systems
Contributions:1 release, 27 commits, 3 PRs in 1 year 6 months
pythonzeropython-clibioinformaticsgenomic
bainscou/docm
Jul 2015 - Jun 2016
Contributions:12 pushes, 6 branches in 11 months
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