Brian Klahn
Research Scientist at University of Virginia
Blacksburg, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolBrian Klahn is a research scientist and computational biologist with 11 years of experience building cross-platform scientific software and bioinformatics tools used by an international research community. He blends hands-on lab expertise—molecular biology, electrophysiology, and BSL2/3 workflows—with systems skills in MySQL/PostgreSQL, R, and multi-OS administration to bridge experimental and computational workstreams. At Biocomplexity Institute and now the University of Virginia he developed and maintained complex GUI network simulation applications and contributed to metabolic network modeling and standards-driven systems biology. His background also includes nuclear propulsion operations and instruction, a detail that speaks to disciplined process control and rigorous operational training rare in scientific software engineers. Based in Blacksburg, VA, he pairs reproducible scientific programming with practical lab systems integration to accelerate collaborative research.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Naval Nuclear Power School, Naval Training Center (NTC)Master of Science, [neuro]physiology, Master of Science, [neuro]physiology at University of Wisconsin-MadisonAssociate of Science; A's and one 'B, Associate of Science; A's and one 'B at University of the State of New York (now Excelsior College)Michigan State UniversityNuclear Power Training Unit
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Github Skills (200)
trello10
markdown10
knowledge-graph10
monorepo10
systems-biology10
julia10
graph10
dynamics10
org-mode10
clojurescript10
pandas9
duplicate-detection9
modin9
interactive9
sql9
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
bdklahn/Socrata2.jl
Sep 2023 - Jan 2024
Tools for interacting with Socrata Data APIs.
Contributions:58 PRs, 87 pushes, 55 branches in 3 months
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