Deena Blumenkrantz
Sr. Bioinformatics Engineer
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDeena Blumenkrantz is a senior bioinformatics engineer in San Francisco with 8 years’ experience applying computational genomics, immunology, and data science to cancer and viral research. At Personalis she translates complex sequencing pipelines into customer-ready reports using Python, MySQL/BigQuery and cloud platforms, and previously supported neoantigen-driven cell therapy trials by automating report generation and QA for Phase I clinical data. Her background spans virology research—from a PhD and postdoc work on influenza evolution to mitochondrial lineage tracing and single-cell genomics—giving her a deep sense for how genetic variation shapes phenotype. Comfortable bridging lab and engineering teams, she combines hands-on NGS analysis, pipeline development (GATK, bwa, WDL), and ML experimentation with open-source contributions like DeepCellLineage. Colleagues rely on her to make technically dense results accessible to downstream scientists and clinical partners.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Microbiology and Molecular Immunology, Bachelor of Science - BS, Microbiology and Molecular Immunology at University of California, DavisDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Virology, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Virology at Imperial College LondonPostdoc, Virology, Postdoc, Virology at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public HealthPlant Biology and Microbiology/Infectious Diseases, Plant Biology and Microbiology/Infectious Diseases at University of East Anglia
Github Skills (32)
genome-analysis10
ncbi9
sequencing9
genomics9
sequence8
typescript8
bioinformatics8
microsoft7
electron7
pytorch7
vscode-extension7
vscode7
fastai7
machine-learning7
parse7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
deepcelllineage/overview
May 2019 - Jul 2019
General description of the group's goals, aims, projects, organizers, contributors, communication channels, key concepts, FAQs, etc
Contributions:14 commits, 2 PRs, 11 pushes in 1 month
goalscommunicationfaqschannelsaims
Deena-B/mitolin
Jun 2019 - Dec 2019
Use mitochondrial sequence from single cells to determine cell lineage relationships
Contributions:151 pushes, 24 branches in 5 months
sequencelineagecell-lineagebioinformaticsdetermine
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