Deacon Sweeney
Technical Lead at National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDeacon Sweeney is a technical lead with nine years of experience building and operationalizing scientific software and cloud-native pipelines for genomics and biomedical research. At NCBI he led public releases and containerization of major genome assembly and annotation suites, running all development and CI/CD in AWS and GCP while managing a small cross-functional team. His background spans algorithm design, pipeline automation, and scalable data curation—from creating TicTac and InstantEC2 to large-scale variant-calling work at the National Cancer Institute and a production-grade VariantDx at Personal Genome Diagnostics. Comfortable in C/C++, Python, and cloud tooling, he combines hands-on engineering with scientific domain expertise to empower medical scientists. An unusual strength is shipping reproducible, containerized scientific workflows that were historically limited to on-prem NIH environments, making complex genomics tools accessible to broader communities.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Biomedical Sciences, Bioinformatics track, PhD, Biomedical Sciences, Bioinformatics track at Wright State University
Github Skills (18)
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
deaconjs/SPADE
Dec 2016 - Oct 2017
Contributions:44 commits, 2 PRs, 38 pushes in 10 months
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deaconjs/ThousandVariantCallersRepo
Nov 2017 - Oct 2019
Thousand Variant Callers Project Github Repo
Contributions:98 commits, 4 PRs, 96 pushes in 1 year 11 months
variant-callers
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