Brett Kennedy
Associate Director, Bioinformatics (IVD Development)
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
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Top SchoolBrett Kennedy is an Associate Director of Bioinformatics with 11 years of experience leading development and analytical validation of high-complexity oncology diagnostics. He has built and managed cross-functional teams that bridge bioinformatics, biostatistics, and clinical operations to scale multi-omic assays from R&D through IVD submission and regulatory review. His background spans clinical lab leadership at ARUP and Intermountain/NAVICAN to product-focused roles at Guardant Health and ConcertAI, combining rigorous statistical methods with software architecture and machine learning for reproducible pipelines. Brett’s PhD in Physical and Biological Anthropology informs a quantitative, hypothesis-driven approach to genomics, and he’s skilled at translating regulatory and clinical requirements into deployable QC and validation frameworks. He’s deeply engaged in precision oncology and known for championing best practices that improve assay performance at population scale.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
The University of UtahBachelor of Arts (BA) Physical and Biological Anthropology, Bachelor of Arts (BA) Physical and Biological Anthropology at University of Nebraska-Lincoln
English, French
Github Skills (6)
genomics7
bioinformatics7
automation1
python1
workflow-automation1
ruby1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
BrettKennedy/Labnotes
Mar 2016 - Mar 2018
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
BrettKennedy/VAAST_Accessory_Scripts
Apr 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:1 commit, 34 pushes in 1 day
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