Gordon Saksena
Data Scientist Research Software Engineer
Lincoln, Nebraska, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGordon Saksena is a pragmatic Data Scientist and Research Software Engineer with 10+ years translating complex biological questions into scalable data solutions, particularly in cancer genomics and large-scale metadata workflows. He consults for Principal Investigators and research groups—most notably within the Broad Institute ecosystem—helping teams adopt cloud and reproducible data practices without forcing disruptive mental-model shifts. Comfortable across MATLAB, R, Python and cloud platforms, he combines deep statistical intuition with hands-on engineering to clean, organize, and productionize messy research data. His background designing high-precision calibration algorithms and visualization tools gives him a rare blend of signal-processing rigor and user-focused tooling. Based in Lincoln, Nebraska, he favors short-term, high-impact engagements that lift research groups to the next level of maturity.
10 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
M.Eng., Electrical Engineering, M.Eng., Electrical Engineering at Cornell University
Github Skills (33)
transition10
bioinformatics10
scala9
docker9
executor9
workflow-description-language9
application9
scientific-workflow9
wdl9
genomics8
interaction8
scale8
common-workflow-language8
hpc8
computational-science8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
broadinstitute/firecloud_developer_toolkit
Jan 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:60 commits, 41 pushes, 10 comments in 1 year 1 month
broadinstitute/pcawg_public
Jan 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:14 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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