Giles Hall
Principal Software Engineer at Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolGiles Hall is a Principal Software Engineer in Boston with over 25 years of software and computational biology experience and 15 years of focused industry work driving genomic methods and ML for biology. At the Broad Institute he leads R&D for novel sequencing technologies and genomic LLMs, while mentoring teams on complex problems like structural variant detection, CRISPR enrichment, and genotype-to-phenotype prediction. His background spans startups and research labs—designing LSTM/GPT2 models for protein engineering at Inari, building production pipelines and biosafety tooling at Gen9, and contributing to core genome assembly work at Broad—resulting in multiple patents and high-impact publications. An active open-source maintainer (notably fixing ALSA sequencer integration in the python-midi project) and hardware-savvy engineer, he blends low-level firmware and imaging system design with cutting-edge ML and large-scale genomics. Known for creative problem solving, he thrives at the intersection of science and software, continually pushing methods from prototype to deployed research infrastructure.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Rochester Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (7)
midi10
midi-instrument10
python10
alsa10
testing9
c178
c118
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
vishnubob/python-midi
Apr 2011 - Jul 2015
Python MIDI library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:52 commits, 5 PRs, 24 pushes in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Giles primarily focused on updating and maintaining the ALSA sequencer integration within the python-midi library. Their contributions included fixing ALSA handle issues, adjusting code for compatibility, and adding new test cases for the ALSA sequencer. They also made modifications to event handling, copy methods and corrected some preops within the project.
midimusicpython
vishnubob/3dobj
Oct 2012 - Jan 2019
Contributions:7 commits, 2 pushes in 6 years 3 months
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