Summary
J Bare is a data engineer with nine years of experience building data pipelines and ML-enabled products for health and life sciences, currently at Volpara Health where he works on clinically validated AI for breast cancer screening. He has a strong background in productionizing research-driven pipelines from roles at Arivale and Sage Bionetworks, integrating diverse biomedical datasets (genetics, microbiome, blood, wearables) and collaborating directly with clinicians and researchers. Comfortable across Python, R, PostgreSQL and AWS, he has scaled modeling workflows to hundreds of spot instances and built end-to-end ingestion, normalization and API layers. A senior software engineer by trade who actively shares work on GitHub, he blends open-source curiosity with pragmatic delivery of reproducible, research-grade systems.
9 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
M.S., Computer Science, M.S., Computer Science at University of Washington
B.S., Mathematical Science, B.S., Mathematical Science at Penn State University
English