John Harting
Bioinformatics Scientist III, Advanced Analytics
Half Moon Bay, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Harting is a seasoned computational biologist with 12 years in industry engineering bioinformatics solutions for targeted sequencing, assay design, and resolving complex genomic regions such as HLA, PGx, and segmental duplications. Currently a Bioinformatics Scientist III in Advanced Analytics at Ambry Genetics, he spent over eight years at Pacific Biosciences developing algorithms and customer workflows for next-generation long-read sequencing and maintaining impactful open-source projects like hifihla and HiFiTargetEnrichment. He blends strong software skills (Rust, Python, SQL) with deep domain expertise in sequence analysis, evolutionary biology, and diagnostic assay development to move research-grade methods into production. Fluent in Indonesian from managing primate ecology research in Borneo, he brings uncommon field-led project management and cross-cultural collaboration experience to genomics teams. An Eagle Scout and lifelong learner, he enjoys tackling knotty problems and translating them into practical, reproducible tools that advance precision medicine.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Master of Science - MS, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Texas Tech UniversityUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Indonesian
Github Skills (36)
samtools10
bioinformatics10
bcftools10
package-management9
conda9
hla9
genomics9
genome8
bioconda8
sequencing8
immunology7
ffi6
genetic6
structural-variation6
science5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
PacificBiosciences/apps-scripts
Feb 2017 - Apr 2022
Miscellaneous scripts for applications of PacBio systems
Contributions:246 commits, 228 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 3 months
miscellaneous-scriptsmiscellaneouspacbio
PacificBiosciences/pbampliconclustering
Sep 2019 - Feb 2021
Contributions:60 commits, 57 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
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