John Letaw
Assistant Director Of Bioinformatics
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Letaw is an Assistant Director of Bioinformatics in Portland, Oregon with 11 years of hands-on experience building CLIA/CAP-compliant clinical bioinformatics pipelines and Linux infrastructure. He combines deep domain expertise in RNA-seq, variant discovery, and functional variation with practical software engineering—authoring Python tools and establishing development standards for cross-functional teams. Known for persistence and meticulous attention to detail, he turns ambiguous research questions into auditable, production-ready analyses and workflows. His background spans academic research support to leading a diagnostics lab, giving him a rare blend of bench-aware computational skill and operational leadership.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Bioinformatics, Master of Science (MS), Bioinformatics at University of Oregon
Github Skills (79)
package-management10
seq10
genomics10
spark-ml10
genetic10
galaxy10
science10
bioconda10
genome10
conda10
sequencing10
bioinformatics10
bam9
pipeline9
api9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
jhl667/pcawg_tools
May 2015 - Jun 2019
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 1 month
mvdbeek/gatk4_xml_prepare
Jul 2018 - Nov 2018
Creates Galaxy XML files based on JSON formatted files provided from GATK Docs.
Contributions:26 commits in 4 months
xml-filesxmlgalaxygatkjson
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