Summary
Brad Crone is a Senior Bioinformatician with 11 years of experience applying software engineering and quantitative methods to genomics and precision medicine. He recently completed a PhD in Bioinformatics at the University of Michigan and has driven functional prioritization of GWAS variants and trans-ancestral polygenic risk model work in the Boyle Lab. Brad combines hands-on pipeline engineering, large-scale data curation, and statistical modeling—skills honed across academic and clinical settings including the University of Iowa and Lurie Children’s Hospital. He is comfortable moving projects from legacy archives and on-prem HPC into reproducible, cloud-ready workflows and has built tooling for population and disease variant databases. Based in Chicago, he’s known for marrying deep technical rigor with a curiosity for new problem spaces and practical, production-ready solutions.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Bioinformatics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Bioinformatics at University of Michigan
Bachelor of Science (BS), Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Mathematics and Computer Science at University of Iowa