Brad Nelson
Principal Bioinformatics Engineer
Bellingham, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolBrad Nelson is a Principal Bioinformatics Engineer with 12+ years blending genomics, machine learning, and cloud-scale engineering to deliver production-ready bioinformatics pipelines and deep learning models. He has driven structural variant discovery in cancer and autism, led metagenomics and carbon-reduction technology efforts, and contributed to high-profile population and structural-variation projects like 1000 Genomes and the Simons initiatives. Comfortable moving research into production, he has built scalable SV simulators, CCN-based models, and successor platforms for metagenomics while authoring work cited nearly 7,000 times across top journals. Based in Bellingham, WA, he pairs domain depth—from Bayesian phylogenetics to proximity-ligation Hi-C QC—with hands-on cloud and HPC implementation. Notably, his career crosses academic rigor and startup velocity, enabling both novel algorithm development and pragmatic productization of genomics solutions.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics and Biology, Bachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics and Biology at Seattle Pacific UniversityMaster of Science - MS, Biology, General, Master of Science - MS, Biology, General at Louisiana State University
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Github Skills (64)
minhash9
vcf-files9
genomics9
python-bindings8
depth8
structural-variation8
bioinformatics8
variants7
matplotlib7
topological-data-analysis7
ieee7
python7
cpp6
genomicranges6
miniconda6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
bnelsj/bwa_mem_mapping
Apr 2015 - Feb 2018
Contributions:37 commits, 29 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
EichlerLab/ssf_DTS_caller
Aug 2015 - Mar 2018
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
callinggenotypingcnvscalebioinformatics
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