Ian Fiddes
Senior Manager II, Computational Biology
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolIan Fiddes is a senior computational biology leader with over a decade of hands-on experience in NGS, single-cell genomics, genome assembly, and complex structural variation at the intersection of research and product development. He holds a PhD from UC Santa Cruz where he developed the Comparative Annotation Toolkit (CAT) and elucidated the role of NOTCH2NL in human brain evolution, work that underpins his strength in translating genomic research into robust software. Ian has led cross-functional teams at 10x Genomics and Inscripta, building production pipelines, APIs, and cloud/HPC infrastructure for sequencing platforms and biosecurity applications. He combines deep algorithmic expertise (e.g., VarTrix, scHLAcount, subset-bam) with practical DevOps and cloud deployment experience, enabling reliable delivery of complex genomics products. Based in San Francisco, he pairs scientific curiosity with an engineer’s focus on reproducibility and scale, and outside work enjoys cooking, road biking, and the ongoing challenge of keeping grocery-store orchids alive.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Foothill CollegeUniversity of California Santa Cruz
Github Skills (52)
bioinformatics9
genomics9
genome8
seq8
bam7
rust-api7
hla7
rna-seq7
prediction6
pipeline6
graph6
structural-variation6
python-bindings5
sequencing5
aws5
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
10XGenomics/vartrix
Jul 2018 - Jun 2019
Single-Cell Genotyping Tool
Contributions:18 releases, 129 commits, 14 PRs in 11 months
bioinformaticsgenotypingsingle-cellgenomics
10XGenomics/subset-bam
Feb 2019 - May 2019
Contributions:31 commits, 1 PR, 5 pushes in 3 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.