David Obenshain
Cloud Application Architect
Rockville, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Obenshain is a Cloud Application Architect with over a decade of experience applying cloud-native and bioinformatics expertise to scientific data challenges, currently designing solutions at AWS. He combines hands-on AWS certification-backed skills (Solutions Architect, Developer, DevOps Professional) with a deep background in managing and curating large omics datasets for NIH initiatives, having led data services for the NIMH Data Archive and NDAR. David is proficient in scripting (Python, Perl), database design and PL/SQL, and building cost-optimized, scalable AWS pipelines (EC2, ECS, S3, SQS, Spot Instances) to process terabyte-scale genomics data. His career uniquely blends IT management, regulatory submission experience, and scientific analysis, enabling him to translate complex research requirements into auditable, production-ready systems. Based in Rockville, MD, he is motivated by work that advances human health and has a track record of delivering practical automation and infrastructure that reduces costs while improving data accessibility.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins UniversityBS, Biology, BS, Biology at University of Maryland
Github Skills (46)
bam9
bioinformatics9
htslib9
fasta8
genomics8
sequencing8
aws8
sam8
throughput7
c-library6
validate6
bids6
typescript6
data-formats6
api5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
NDAR/ndar_toolkit
Nov 2014 - Jun 2015
Contributions:23 commits, 20 pushes in 6 months
NDAR/data-access-notebook
Dec 2017 - Mar 2021
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 3 years 3 months
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