Carlos Mendez
Software Engineer at University of California, San Francisco
Vallejo, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCarlos Mendez is a software engineer with 10 years of experience building tools that bridge computational and biological research, currently automating genetic data flows into cBioPortal at UCSF. Trained in both computer science and molecular biology at UC Santa Cruz, he has led technical efforts for the Core Genomics Platform, including the faceted file browser that informed the Human Cell Atlas Data Coordination Platform. He excels at turning complex genomic data requirements into practical, reusable software components across distributed, multi-institution teams. Comfortable across full-stack web development and data integration, he brings domain fluency from hands-on lab work to production engineering. Based in Vallejo, CA, he combines research empathy with a practitioner’s focus on shipping reliable pipelines that accelerate biomedical discovery.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
University of California Santa Cruz
English, Spanish
Github Skills (88)
cancer-genomics10
perl10
genomics10
vep10
maf10
bioinformatics10
bam9
bcftools9
science9
htslib9
metadata9
visualization9
samtools9
tabix9
api8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
ucsc-cgp/cgp-dashboard
Nov 2016 - Mar 2018
The Core's web dashboard including a faceted file browser
Contributions:8 releases, 23 PRs, 133 pushes in 1 year 4 months
file-browserbrowserweb-dashboarddashboardfaceted
ucsc-cgp/cgp-dss-azul-indexer
Sep 2017 - Jun 2018
This is the indexer that consumes events from the Blue Box and indexes them into Elasticsearch.
Contributions:2 releases, 24 PRs, 82 pushes in 9 months
eventsblueboxconsumesindexes
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