John Torcivia
Senior Bioinformatics Engineer
Manassas, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Torcivia is a Senior Bioinformatics Engineer at NCBI with a decade of experience blending genomics, AI, and software engineering to build scalable NGS analysis tools and datasets. He brings deep cross-disciplinary expertise—Ph.D. in bioinformatics, a J.D. and USPTO patent credentials, and production engineering experience in C/C++, Python, SQL, and DevOps—enabling him to bridge research, regulatory, and product domains. Previously he led pre-sales and edge AI programs at Clarifai, translating complex computer vision and embedded-AI requirements into robust deployments. His background includes roles at the FDA and national labs, giving him a practical appreciation for regulatory rigor and public-health impact. Colleagues rely on him for melding rigorous statistical and ML methods with production-grade pipelines that prioritize reproducibility and scalability. Unusually for an engineer, he leverages legal training to navigate IP and compliance challenges in bioinformatics projects.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Rochester Institute of TechnologyB.A, B.A at Penn State UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) at The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health SciencesJ.D., J.D. at William & Mary Law SchoolM.A., M.A. at Old Dominion University
Spanish, American Sign Language, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (58)
ncbi10
gevent9
asynchronous9
python9
tornado9
twisted9
python-web9
quart9
webclient9
sqlite8
aiohttp8
deep-learning8
bottle8
ai8
llm8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
syntheticgio/tissue_slide_downloader
Mar 2021 - Apr 2024
Code to convert SVS files into JPEG and upload to Clarifai for CV purposes.
Contributions:1 PR, 1 push, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
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syntheticgio/tcga_varscan_pipeline
Jan 2018 - Sep 2020
Support files to run TCGA's varscan pipeline on Google compute engine.
Contributions:9 PRs, 248 pushes, 11 branches in 2 years 8 months
compute-enginegoogle-compute-enginepipelinetcgagoogle-compute
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