David Danko
Cofounder And Director at Biotia
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Danko is a mission-driven CTO and cofounder with 12 years of experience applying computational biology, bioinformatics, and machine learning to infectious disease diagnostics and surveillance. He combines a Ph.D. from Weill Cornell studying environmental microbiomes with an MIT computer science background to translate cutting-edge research into commercial products at Biotia and GeoSeeq Foundation. Skilled at leading interdisciplinary teams, he has hands-on experience building scalable bioinformatics software, communicating complex data to non-experts, and deploying AI for hospital infection prevention. His background spans academic research (including MetaSUB and the Kennedy Institute) and industry data science (Bridgewater), reflecting rare fluency across wet lab, algorithmic, and production engineering domains. Notably, he pairs technical leadership with practical people management lessons learned coaching collegiate rowing, which shaped his collaborative approach.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computational Biology, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computational Biology at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computational Biology and Medicine, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computational Biology and Medicine at Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences
English
Github Skills (103)
pypi10
bioinformatics10
fasta9
ggplot9
genomics9
fastq9
dna-sequences9
aggregate9
data-visualization8
bioconda8
pipeline8
mer8
prediction8
python8
cml8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
dcdanko/ModuleUltra
Oct 2017 - Aug 2019
A control center for complex bioinformatics pipelines
Contributions:5 PRs, 92 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 10 months
centerpipelinecontrol-centerbioinformaticssnakemake
dcdanko/capalyzer
Mar 2018 - Jan 2020
Contributions:102 commits, 2 PRs, 78 pushes in 1 year 10 months
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