Bill Katz
Principal Software Engineer at Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Ashburn, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolBill Katz is a Principal Software Engineer with 19 years of experience building tools for high-resolution neuroimaging at the Janelia Research Campus, where he leads development of scalable, versioned datastores and advanced visualization pipelines for nanometer-scale biomedical image volumes. He is the architect and principal developer of DVID, a distributed, image-oriented datastore that embodies his interest in branched versioning and reproducible "GitHub for scientific data" workflows. His work spans sparse-volume graphics, large-scale data engineering, and deep learning for segmentation and visualization, applied to cutting-edge neuroscience research. Trained in biomedical engineering and medicine, he combines clinical insight with systems-level software design to solve domain-specific problems at production scale. Outside of core engineering he pursues creative storytelling in written and motion-picture forms, reflecting a rare mix of technical rigor and artistic curiosity.
19 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Biological Sciences, Computer Science, B.S., Biological Sciences, Computer Science at Stanford UniversitySt. Mary's International SchoolM.D., Medicine, M.D., Medicine at University of Virginia
English
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Github Skills (162)
fastapi10
python10
json-schema10
image-viewer10
swagger10
http-service10
computer-graphics10
build-process10
openapi10
async10
big-data10
data-engineer10
swagger-ui10
api10
rest10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
janelia-flyem/sample-grayscale
Oct 2013 - Oct 2013
Contributions:2 commits in 1 day
clio-janelia/clio-store
Jan 2021 - Mar 2025
A serverless Connectomics Storage API based on Google Firestore and other scalable services.
Contributions:1 review, 7 PRs, 190 pushes in 4 years 2 months
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