Daniel Diaz is a Staff Bioinformatics Engineer with 11 years of experience building Python applications, cloud infrastructure automation, and genomics-focused product development at Illumina. He combines a dual academic background in Computer Science and Political Science with AWS Solutions Architect Professional certification and hands-on DevOps expertise (Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform) to bridge research, engineering, and secure production delivery. Daniel has driven automation for HPC and cloud platforms, moved regulated systems to event-driven AWS architectures, and scaled testing frameworks for firmware and genomic pipelines. Based in San Diego, he favors fast-evolving, mission-driven teams and brings an unusual blend of domain fluency and practical tool-building—when not coding he volunteers with diabetes nonprofits and pursues sailing and snorkeling.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Tesoro High School
Machine Learning, Machine Learning at UC San Diego Extended Studies
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