Dillon Scott
PhD Candidate
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolDillon Scott is a bioinformatics-focused PhD candidate and software engineer blending rigorous CS and biology training with five years of applied experience in academia and industry. He has built production-ready pipelines and Python packages for spatial transcriptomics and cancer target discovery during co-ops at Immunitas Therapeutics and the Broad Institute, and teaches large undergraduate CS courses while mentoring developer teams. As Technical Director and Head of Developer Experience at Northeastern’s Sandbox, he scaled onboarding and documentation practices that preserved institutional knowledge across ~50 frameworks—an unusual emphasis for an early-career researcher. Comfortable across TypeScript/React full-stack work and reproducible ML infrastructure (Snakemake, Docker, Jupyter), he moves projects from prototyping to validated analyses. Based in Boston, he combines a summa cum laude CS+Biology BS with hands-on leadership in interdisciplinary software and computational biology projects.
5 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, General Studies, High School Diploma, General Studies at Northwestern Lehigh High SchoolBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science and Biology, Honors, Summa Cum Laude, 3.93/4.0, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science and Biology, Honors, Summa Cum Laude, 3.93/4.0 at Northeastern UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Bioinformatics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Bioinformatics at Boston University
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Github Skills (71)
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
dillydally414/AoC-2022
Dec 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:24 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 23 days
immunitastx/monkeybread
Aug 2022 - Dec 2022
Analyzing cellular niches in spatial transcriptomics data
Contributions:74 commits, 32 PRs, 109 pushes in 3 months
analyzingconnectivityspatialmeta-analysisbioinformatics
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