David Zhang
Senior Expert I Data Science
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Zhang is a Senior Expert in Data Science based in London with eight years of experience turning genetic and transcriptomic data into production-grade software and pipelines. He bridges bioinformatics and engineering, having led cross-functional projects from prototyping to scalable deployment—optimising ML tools for million-cell single‑cell datasets and automating knowledge-graph releases to AWS with Terraform and CI/CD. His background includes a PhD in Bioinformatics and a track record of shipping Nextflow pipelines, Python/R packages and infrastructure tooling that cut clinical verification cycles and improved reproducibility. Known for translating complex biology to engineering teams, he combines deep domain expertise with practical DevOps skills to deliver actionable insights for decision-making. An underappreciated strength is his focus on developer experience—templating, containerisation and workflow automation—that keeps bioinformatics analyses maintainable at scale.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
University College London
Github Skills (26)
visualization10
rna-seq10
bam9
sequencing9
bioinformatics9
genes8
bioconductor7
partitions6
tidy5
r-package5
tidyverse4
dplyr4
tidymodels4
parsing4
csv4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
dzhang32/dasper
Mar 2020 - Mar 2022
Detecting Aberrant Splicing Events from RNA-sequencing data
Contributions:1 release, 351 commits, 1 PR in 2 years 1 month
splicingeventssequencing-datasequencingbioinformatics
dzhang32/chess
Feb 2021 - Aug 2021
Contributions:47 commits, 7 pushes in 6 months
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