Jessica Kurata
Manager, Bioinformatics
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolJessica Kurata is a bioinformatics manager with nine years of experience applying Python and R to extract biologically meaningful insights from large molecular datasets, currently leading analytical efforts at Guardant Health in the San Francisco Bay Area. She progressed through technical scientist roles into management, pairing hands-on pipeline and container development with team mentorship and project leadership. Her PhD work built a microRNA-targeting CRISPR-Cas9 library, accompanied by a searchable MySQL/PHP resource and reproducible Singularity-based analysis workflows—evidence of her focus on robust, shareable tools. Jessica blends deep wet-lab experience in RNA biology with software engineering discipline to translate complex genomics experiments into production-ready analyses. She’s particularly adept at introducing new technologies and guiding cross-disciplinary teams to adopt reproducible, scalable methods.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Joint Biology and Chemistry, Bachelor of Science - BS, Joint Biology and Chemistry at Harvey Mudd CollegeDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Biology/Biological Sciences, General, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Biology/Biological Sciences, General at Irell & Manella Graduate School of Biological SciencesGithub contributions (5)
NCBI-Hackathons/TCGA_dbGaP
Aug 2016 - Mar 2018
Contributions:14 commits, 23 pushes, 1 comment in 1 year 7 months
jkurata/data_processing
Sep 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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