Benjamin Capodanno
Software Engineer at Brotman Baty Institute
Bellevue, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin Capodanno is a software engineer with 8 years of experience building practical, production-ready tools at the intersection of biology and computation. Currently at the Brotman Baty Institute, he focuses on delivering software that accelerates biological research and clinical workflows, drawing on prior work creating genome browser instances, RNA‑Seq pipelines, and allele-specific analyses. His internships and projects show a knack for turning manual, compliance-sensitive processes into automated cloud solutions—e.g., HIPAA-compliant de-identification pipelines and Azure-backed data platforms that replaced spreadsheet workflows. Based in Bellevue, he blends full-stack engineering with domain fluency in computational biology, favoring radically pragmatic solutions that make science more reproducible and accessible.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computational Biology, Bachelor's degree, Computational Biology at Colby College
Spanish, Chinese
Github Skills (26)
redcap9
pathogen9
sqitch9
rest-api8
cli8
surveillance8
plpgsql8
logistics8
postgresql7
sql7
python7
etl6
tkinter5
testing5
bioinformatics4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
VariantEffect/mavedb-ui
May 2023 - Jun 2026
MaveDB UI
Contributions:15 releases, 123 reviews, 159 PRs in 3 years 1 month
VariantEffect/mavedb-api
May 2023 - Jul 2026
MaveDB API
Contributions:18 releases, 128 reviews, 199 PRs in 3 years 2 months
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