Jenna Lang
Senior Director, R&D AncestryDNA
Sacramento, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJenna Lang is a strategic R&D leader who blends deep genomics and bioinformatics expertise with product-driven engineering and AI/ML delivery, currently serving as Senior Director for AncestryDNA. Over a two-decade career she has transformed research teams into product-aligned organizations, modernized infrastructure to cut AWS costs by nearly half, and accelerated feature delivery tenfold while embedding AI across the R&D lifecycle. She’s launched cross-functional ventures (including the company’s first generative-AI product, PetDNA), built an org-wide AI certification program, and established a Center of Excellence for reproducibility, ethics, and governance. Comfortable translating science for the c-suite, she pairs hands-on technical strategy with culture-building and policy advocacy on DNA privacy and responsible AI. Less obvious: she combines academic depth (PhD in microbial genomics) with practical product launches and global platform experience from AWS and international R&D programs, enabling rapid, compliant innovation at scale.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Microbial Genomics and Ecology, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Microbial Genomics and Ecology at University of California, DavisMaster's degree, Quantitative Biology, Master's degree, Quantitative Biology at The University of Texas at ArlingtonBachelor of Science - BS, Biology, General, Bachelor of Science - BS, Biology, General at University of New Orleans
Github Skills (80)
step-functions10
spanish9
batch9
bioconductor9
genomics9
microbiome8
taxonomy8
aws8
bioinformatics8
phyloseq7
reproducible-science7
nextflow7
pipeline7
metagenomics7
aws-ebs7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
jennomics/WorkflowPaper
Apr 2014 - Jan 2015
Contributions:280 commits, 154 pushes in 9 months
jennomics/seurat_on_AWS
Sep 2020 - Sep 2021
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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