Derrick Deconti
Director at Insight Data Science
Greater Boston United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDerrick Deconti is a Ph.D.-trained bioinformatics director in Greater Boston with ~11 years of experience bridging academia and pharma to deliver bioinformatics, ML, and cloud-native solutions from discovery through clinical stages. He leads a team of scientists and software engineers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, building interactive cloud dashboards, teaching workshops (sequencing, scRNA-seq, LLMs), and partnering on drug development programs including cancer genomics, gene therapy, and vaccine research. Derrick has a track record of developing novel algorithms and user-focused web apps—ranging from contamination detection in multiplexed assays to ML classifiers for tissue and small-molecule screening—that translate complex sequencing data into actionable results. Comfortable collaborating across cross-functional teams and projecting budgets, he combines deep statistical rigor with practical product delivery and an unusual talent for turning high-dimensional biological data into accessible tools for non-computational scientists.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Biochemistry, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Biochemistry at Worcester Polytechnic InstituteDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Bioinformatics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Bioinformatics at University of Massachusetts Medical School
English
Github Skills (21)
bioinformatics9
conda7
bioconda7
package-management6
biology4
python4
illumina2
sequencing2
pipeline2
normal2
labeling1
web-application1
restful-api1
rest-api1
vep1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
dkdeconti/sdRNAPeaksIdentification
May 2016 - Oct 2020
Contributions:1 release, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 6 months
dkdeconti/DFCI-CCCB-Plexwell-pipeline
Mar 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:3 releases, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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