David Williamson
Senior Director - Bioinformatics Solutions (SME)
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.
10 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 UniversityPh.D. Biological and Medical Informatics, Ph.D. Biological and Medical Informatics at University of California, San Francisco
Github Skills (30)
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superlearner9
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biostatistics8
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python7
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sentinel6
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scientific-computing6
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stata5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
bdwilliamson/flevr
Mar 2021 - Jan 2023
Contributions:1 release, 35 commits, 28 pushes in 1 year 10 months
kpwhri/Sentinel-Scalable-NLP
Dec 2022 - Jan 2025
Sentinel Initiative-sponsored work on designing scalable solutions
Contributions:44 PRs, 25 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
scalablesentinelinitiative
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