Eric Talevich
Principal Data Scientist
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Talevich is a Ph.D. bioinformatician and seasoned technology leader with 17 years of experience building scalable multi-omics platforms and diagnostic-grade analysis pipelines. Currently VP of Multi-omics Insights in San Francisco, he has led cloud migrations of petabyte-scale genomic data, developed production pipelines for oncology and infectious disease assays, and guided product and platform design for large consortia like UK Biobank. He bridges hands-on software engineering (notably contributions to Biopython’s Phylo module and CNVkit) with strategic leadership, driving reproducible, open-source tools that advance precision medicine. His background spans academia, clinical genomics, and startups, giving him a rare fluency in CAP/CLIA validation, data infrastructure, and AI-assisted design for gene therapies. Colleagues rely on him to convert complex biological questions into auditable, scalable software and to shepherd multidisciplinary teams from prototype to regulated product. An advocate for open science, he often publishes methods and presents technical work at venues such as ASGCT and bioRxiv.
17 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Applied Mathematics, B.S. Applied Mathematics at University of California, DavisUniversity of Georgia
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Github Skills (12)
biopython10
python10
xml-parsing9
unit-testing8
bioinformatics7
statistics6
functional-programming6
makefile6
numpy6
r6
rpy26
build-automation6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
biopython/biopython
May 2009 - Oct 2018
Official git repository for Biopython (originally converted from CVS)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 reviews, 559 commits, 7 PRs in 9 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Eric appears to be primarily involved in developing and maintaining the BioPython library, focusing on the Phylo module. The commits show work on parsing and writing phylogenetic trees in the PhyloXML format, including the implementation of various tree-related classes and methods for handling tree data. The contributions include converting between different tree representations, integrating with SeqRecord objects, and general code cleanup, with added tests to ensure functionality.
biopythonpythonbioinformaticsgenomicsprotein
etal/cnvkit-dnanexus
Dec 2014 - Apr 2019
Contributions:95 commits, 1 PR, 67 pushes in 4 years 4 months
dnanexus
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