Idan Gabdank
Senior Biocuration Scientist
Livermore, California, United States
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Top SchoolIdan Gabdank is a Senior Biocuration Scientist and seasoned leader with 11 years of experience orchestrating large-scale genomics programs, data portals, and reproducible bioinformatics pipelines. He has led multidisciplinary teams at Stanford and NIH, managing multimillion-dollar portfolios, reducing turnover through structured mentorship, and driving CI/CD and automation that cut manual release effort by 90%. Known for building interoperable data models used across consortia (ENCODE, IGVF, HGRP) and a data portal serving 20K+ monthly users, he blends technical depth in NGS processing with strategic portfolio assessment and stakeholder-facing reporting. His work includes pragmatic innovations—like algorithms that detected thousands of unintended FASTQ duplications—and a track record of translating complex experimental artifacts into robust, production-ready data systems. Based in Livermore, CA, he is seeking senior roles that bridge program leadership, computational biology, and data science.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Postdoctoral Fellowship, Genome Sciences/Genomics, Postdoctoral Fellowship, Genome Sciences/Genomics at Stanford University School of MedicineDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Bioinformatics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Bioinformatics at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
English, Russian, Hebrew
Github Skills (54)
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ENCODE-DCC/demo-pipeline
Oct 2018 - Jul 2019
Contributions:134 commits, 18 PRs, 74 pushes in 9 months
ENCODE-DCC/checkfiles
Nov 2017 - Mar 2022
Contributions:20 reviews, 55 PRs, 127 pushes in 4 years 3 months
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