Jonathan Gesell
Sr. Bioinformatics Engineer
Dallas, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJonathan Gesell is a senior bioinformatics engineer in Dallas with a decade of experience turning complex sequencing and metagenomics problems into production-ready pipelines. He combines strong computational biology expertise with practical engineering—containerizing tools (Docker, Singularity), optimizing pipelines (cutting runtimes by an order of magnitude), and deploying cloud-based solutions on Azure and AWS. At Quest Diagnostics and UT Southwestern he has driven pipeline modernization, R&D of best practices, and reproducible workflows that scale beyond local compute. Trained in biology and computer science, he bridges wet-lab data needs and software development, often acting as the liaison between researchers and engineering teams. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic performance improvements and durable automation that keep large sequencing projects on schedule.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, 3.407, Master's degree, Computer Science, 3.407 at University of Nebraska at OmahaD'Evelyn High SchoolB.A., Biology, Communication Studies, B.A., Biology, Communication Studies at Austin College
Spanish
Github Skills (11)
docker-image7
bioinformatics7
fasta7
aggregate6
genomics6
pypi6
fastq6
bioconda6
python5
docker5
data-visualization4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
utsw-bicf/auto-docker
Oct 2020 - Sep 2021
Lightweight version of our automated Docker image builder
Contributions:5 reviews, 186 commits, 22 PRs in 11 months
docker-image-builderdocker-imagedocker-automateddockerbuilder
jgesell/16S
Aug 2015 - Oct 2018
Contributions:69 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 3 months
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