Daniel Diaz
Staff Bioinformatics Engineer
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel 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 SchoolMachine Learning, Machine Learning at UC San Diego Extended StudiesUniversity of California, Irvine
English, Spanish
Github Skills (12)
neural-network10
machine-learning10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
deep-neural-networks10
python10
ml10
netlify5
hugo5
hugo-theme4
static-site-generator2
jamstack2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
dddiaz/dddiaz.com
Apr 2020 - Jun 2026
GitHub repository for my personal website. Built with Hugo.
Contributions:10 PRs, 168 pushes, 9 branches in 6 years 3 months
hugojamstacknetlifyhugo-themestatic-site-generator
dddiaz/api.dddiaz.com
Apr 2018 - Dec 2025
Contributions:1 release, 1 PR, 57 pushes in 7 years 9 months
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