Jim Piper
Associate Faculty
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJim Piper is a pragmatic full-stack software engineer and educator with 10+ years of professional experience building web and data systems across academia, biotech, and enterprise retail. He combines deep Java and SQL backend expertise with modern front-end stacks (React/TypeScript) and practical ML/data experience working with genomic formats like FASTA. As founder of a data-focused consultancy he helps researchers operationalize data collection and ML, and as associate faculty he translates industry practice into engaging computer science instruction delivered online and in-person. His background spans ontology-driven data mediation, healthcare integrations (HL7), and production search and REST services—an uncommon blend of formal knowledge representation and hands-on engineering. Known for shipping end-to-end solutions from CRM and lab informatics to mobile data-collection apps, he brings both entrepreneurial initiative and classroom-tested communication skills.
10 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
MS Engineering, MS Engineering at San José State UniversityCalifornia Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Github Skills (8)
java10
biomedical9
biomedical-research8
neuroimaging6
ifttt4
dataflow2
api2
workflow-engine1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
LabKey/platform
Jul 2015 - Feb 2018
A set of modules that provide core functionality for LabKey Server
Contributions:204 commits in 2 years 7 months
javalabkey-module-containerlabkey
LabKey/workflow
Oct 2015 - Aug 2016
Workflow processing engine and services
Contributions:8 pushes in 10 months
iftttworkflow-enginelabkey-modulecloudnativejava
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