James Lindsay
Director Of Software at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolJames Lindsay is a software leader and bioinformatics architect with 12+ years building production platforms that bring cancer genomics into clinical practice. As Director of Software at Dana-Farber he leads engineering teams that deliver widely used tools like cBioPortal and MatchMiner, and he has shepherded NCI-funded efforts to create cloud-based multi-omic data commons and large-scale immunofluorescence pipelines. He combines hands-on systems design—spanning Python, distributed task queues, REST APIs and cloud compute—with domain expertise in genomics, biomarker modeling and machine learning. Before Dana-Farber he co-founded Smpl Bio, engineering scalable model-selection infrastructure that automated thousands of ML experiments across Google and AWS. James pairs academic rigor from a PhD track in computational biology with product-focused execution, making research-grade methods accessible to clinicians and bench scientists. He is based in Boston and known for translating complex bioinformatics workflows into reliable, scalable software used in everyday oncology care.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at University of Connecticut
Github Skills (174)
cancer-genomics10
plotly10
jupyter-notebook10
regl10
visualization10
charts9
interactive9
location9
ipywidgets9
jupyter-widget9
pyodide9
data-visualization9
dashboard9
plotly-dash9
charting9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
jim-bo/oncotreenx
Dec 2015 - Jul 2024
light networkx wrapper around the oncotree data structure
Contributions:13 PRs, 24 pushes, 2 branches in 8 years 8 months
networkxdata-structurelight
dfci/matchminer
Feb 2017 - Mar 2019
MatchMiner: An open source computational platform for matching genomic profiles to precision cancer medicine clinical trials
Contributions:5 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
clinical-trialsclinicalgenomic-profilesmatchinggenomics
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