Jay Hannah
Data Engineer
Omaha, Nebraska, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJay Hannah is a veteran Data Engineer with 23 years of hands-on programming and architecture experience, currently focused on large-scale data systems, APIs, and cloud-native deployments from his base in Omaha. He blends deep technical leadership—having managed mission-critical OLTP teams supporting a $400M revenue stream—with sustained individual contributor work in Python, Golang, Perl, and SQL across bioinformatics, ad tech, e-commerce, and AI startups. Jay specializes in durable, observable systems: data modeling, TCP/IP services, high-availability multi-site architectures, JSON/XML processing, and rigorous TDD/CI-CD practices. He often bridges gaps as a DevOps generalist, writing Terraform and Docker-driven automation to productionize complex pipelines and recover abandoned legacy stacks. An open-source-minded engineer, he has contributed backend fixes and documentation to long-standing projects like BioPerl, and has a proven habit of untangling epic git disasters for fun. His career combines pragmatic operational discipline with an appetite for documentation, diagrams, and solving once-for-many reusable problems.
23 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Bioinformatics, B.S. Bioinformatics at University of Nebraska at OmahaMechanical Engineering, Psychology, Philosophy, Mechanical Engineering, Psychology, Philosophy at Iowa State University
Github Skills (3)
bioinformatics10
perl10
bioperl10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
bioperl/bioperl-live
Jul 2009 - Feb 2013
Core BioPerl 1.x code
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:19 commits, 2 comments in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Jay primarily contributed to the BioPerl library by modifying existing code, specifically within the `Bio::SeqIO` modules. They worked on the `gbxml.pm` and `largefasta.pm` files, addressing issues and adding support for new features. Several commits involved documentation updates and bug fixes, indicating a focus on maintaining the library's functionality and usability.
bioperlpdb-filesbiologytoolkitbioinformatics
jhannah/admin
Mar 2016 - Feb 2024
Contributions:16 pushes, 3 branches in 7 years 11 months
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