David Zhang
Senior Expert I Data Science
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
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 (21)
visualization10
sequencing10
ggplot10
diagnostics10
bam9
bioconductor9
r-language7
computational-biology6
bioinformatics6
r6
csv5
parsing5
r-package5
automation4
playwright4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
dzhang32/autorecipes
Sep 2021 - Mar 2022
Contributions:209 commits, 12 pushes in 5 months
dzhang32/ggtranscript
Dec 2021 - Aug 2022
Visualizing transcript structure and annotation using ggplot2
Contributions:1 release, 301 commits, 2 PRs in 7 months
ggplotgene-annotationvisualizationtranscriptsggplot-extension
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.