Gabriel Pratt
Senior Applied Scientist - Special Projects at Amazon
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGabriel Pratt is a Senior Applied Scientist with 13 years of experience at the intersection of bioinformatics and production ML, currently leading eCLIP data analysis for the ENCODE project within Amazon’s Special Projects group. He combines deep genomics expertise from a PhD in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology with software engineering chops honed at Microsoft and through contributions to tools like umi-tools, where he improved performance and stability for UMI handling in NGS workflows. Known for rigorous experiment QC and integrative analysis of large-scale datasets, he also mentors peers and supports cross-team bioinformatics needs. Based in Seattle, he brings a track record of turning complex sequencing assays into reproducible, scalable analysis pipelines that inform both research and product decisions.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at University of WashingtonUniversity of California San Diego
Japanese
Github Skills (6)
bioinformatics10
python10
data-structure9
algorithm9
data-structures9
algorithms9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
CGATOxford/UMI-tools
Mar 2017 - Mar 2017
Tools for handling Unique Molecular Identifiers in NGS data sets
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 2 PRs, 11 comments in 13 days
Contributions summary:Gabriel primarily contributed to fixing bugs and improving the performance of the `umi-tools` library. This includes addressing issues related to reference name handling and optimizing search algorithms. Furthermore, the user addressed style issues and integrated updates from the upstream master branch, improving the codebase stability and functionality. They also created and reverted a change to a directional sort.
data-setsngsmolecularbioinformaticshandling
gpratt/iPython_Notebook
Nov 2012 - Feb 2016
Contributions:177 commits, 48 pushes in 3 years 3 months
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