Emmanuel San
Bioinformatician II
Durham, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolEmmanuel San is a bioinformatician and seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience blending web development, database design, and infectious disease genomics. Currently a Bioinformatician II at Duke Human Vaccine Institute and CTO of a software localization and web solutions firm, he bridges hands-on backend work (PHP/MySQL, Apache, MS SQL) with advanced data analysis in Python, R and STATA. His research background includes phylogenetics, phylodynamics and transmission-network analysis for pathogens such as HIV, SARS-CoV-2 and TB, informed by a PhD focus in virology. Emmanuel’s career uniquely pairs systems administration and network engineering with scientific computing and grant-supported research, enabling reproducible pipelines from data collection to publication. He also brings language-localization expertise—deploying tools like Pootle and Translate Toolkit—which has helped internationalize software and research outputs across multiple African languages. Based in Durham, NC, he combines academic rigor with product-minded engineering to deliver scalable, research-oriented data systems.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Virology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Virology at University of KwaZulu-NatalMaster of Science (M.Sc.), in Data Communications and Software Engineering, 4.36, Master of Science (M.Sc.), in Data Communications and Software Engineering, 4.36 at Makerere University
Swahili, japadhola, Bantu, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (148)
gitlab10
vue10
golang9
testing9
virus9
genomics-visualization9
bioconductor9
gitea9
devops9
gwas9
cicd9
bitbucket9
sequencing9
go9
infectious-diseases9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
CERI-KRISP/africa-covid19-genomics
Feb 2021 - Sep 2022
Contributions:1 release, 6 commits, 3 pushes in 1 year 6 months
jsan4christ/Sars-Cov2-Refs
Jul 2020 - Aug 2023
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 1 month
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