Brandon Saint-john
Bioinformatics Engineer
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolBrandon Saint-john is a bioinformatics engineer with nine years of experience applying computation to biological problems, currently working at Berkeley Lab on agnostic pathogen detection via spectroscopy and innate immunity. He earned a PhD in Bioinformatics from UCSC, where he developed long-read sequencing methods, a fast Python/Rust toolkit for chromatin accessibility, and obtained a patent for nanopore modification preparation. Comfortable across wet-lab protocols and production-grade software, he builds reproducible workflows, CI pipelines, and efficient ML models to extract biological insight from novel datasets. He has a track record of expanding access to bioinformatics—co-leading bootcamps for underrepresented students and mentoring early-career researchers. Outside the lab he’s an avid outdoorsman and rock climber who brings the same problem-solving curiosity to science and field adventures.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
University of California Santa CruzBachelor of Science - BS, Biochemistry, Bachelor of Science - BS, Biochemistry at University of Virginia
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (22)
seq8
rna-seq7
bioinformatics5
assembly4
expressions4
theano4
pipeline4
principal-component-analysis3
symbolic-computation3
mathematical3
math2
machine-learning2
mathematics2
statistics2
computation2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
bsaintjo/compbio
Jul 2018 - Sep 2023
Contributions:11 pushes in 5 years 3 months
BrooksLabUCSC/splicedice
Feb 2020 - Feb 2022
A tool for detecting and quantifying alternative splicing with RNA-seq
Contributions:10 PRs, 15 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years
splicingpipelinealternative-splicingbioinformaticsdetecting
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