David Williamson
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Williamson is a senior bioinformatics solutions architect and molecular biologist with over a decade of experience designing CLIA-grade NGS pipelines, clinical reporting systems, and production bioinformatics teams. He has led efforts at Illumina, Adaptive Biotechnologies, and TwinStrand to translate complex sequencing assays into validated, regulatory-ready workflows for cancer and immune diagnostics, tying algorithm design to operational quality control. Currently Senior Director - Bioinformatics Solutions at Strand Life Sciences and an Associate Investigator affiliated with Kaiser Permanente Washington, he focuses on inference in high-dimensional biological data and the application of AI/ML/GenAI to genomics. David blends deep wet-lab understanding from his PhD work with pragmatic software engineering—building Nextflow/AWS production pipelines and customer-facing analytical platforms. He also took an 18-month sabbatical to study music and parenting, reflecting a creative, human-centered approach to leadership and problem solving.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Ecology and Systematic Biology, Ecology and Systematic Biology at San Francisco State UniversityBS, Cellular & Molecular Biology, BS, Cellular & Molecular Biology at Western Washington UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Biological and Medical Informatics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Biological and Medical Informatics at University of California, San Francisco
Github Skills (38)
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bayesian-methods8
modeling8
sentinel8
r-package8
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derive7
causal-inference7
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
bdwilliamson/Sentinel-Scalable-NLP
Dec 2022 - Dec 2025
Sentinel Initiative-sponsored work on designing scalable solutions
Contributions:54 pushes in 3 years
scalablesentinelinitiative
bdwilliamson/biostat311
Feb 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:142 commits, 85 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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