Joseph Dale
Senior Manager, Ontology Engineering at QIAGEN
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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Top SchoolJoseph Dale is a Senior Manager in Ontology Engineering with 14 years of experience building bioinformatics platforms that bridge computational biology, genomics, and scalable software systems. He leads the team behind QIAGEN Knowledge Base, a large biomedical knowledge graph that powers both research and clinical variant interpretation products, combining ontology design with production-grade engineering. His background spans moonshot R&D at X, enterprise API work at Google, and product and platform leadership at DNAnexus, reflecting a rare mix of deep domain knowledge and shipping complex, customer-facing software. Trained in computer science and bioengineering at UC Berkeley, he has a history of applying machine learning to pathway and genomics problems and contributed to early transcriptomics work published in Science. Notably, he moves fluidly between hands-on technical direction and strategic product decisions, making ontology-driven knowledge graphs practical for both researchers and clinicians.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Bioengineering, Master of Science - MS Bioengineering at University of California, Berkeley
Github Skills (15)
barrage10
wake-on-lan10
python9
compounds6
computational-biology4
dictionary3
scientific-publications3
flutter2
macos1
es6-modules1
javascript1
android1
esmodules1
ipados1
maccatalyst1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
dnanexus/Scoring
Jun 2013 - Jul 2013
Contributions:74 commits in 28 days
dnanexus/dx-toolkit
Apr 2012 - Jul 2016
DNAnexus platform client libraries
Contributions:188 commits, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 4 years 3 months
pythontoolkitclient-librariesdnanexusbarrage
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