Justin Kiggins
Principal Product Manager at Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
Phoenix, Arizona, United States
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Top SchoolJustin Kiggins is a product-focused founder and CEO with 14 years of experience bridging open source, AI × biology, and data science to deliver tools researchers actually use. He spent the last several years at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative building competitive intelligence for AI×Biology and leading imaging and single-cell product strategies—driving napari plugin growth and stewarding multi-million dollar grants and cross-institution partnerships. Technically fluent in front-end UX for scientific tools, he’s contributed to high-profile open-source projects like cellxgene, improving documentation, UI, and user-facing guidance for hosted instances. A PhD neuroscientist and former Allen Institute scientist, he pairs deep domain expertise in experimental design and large-scale imaging with product rigor. Based in Phoenix, he’s driven repeatable AI enablement workshops and strategy work that translate messy biological data into actionable product roadmaps. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic connector who turns scientific complexity into usable, community-centered software.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoBSE Bioengineering, BSE Bioengineering at Arizona State University
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Github Skills (18)
react10
javascript9
documentation9
data-visualization8
html8
data-viz8
data-visualisation8
visualization8
visualizations8
partial6
correlation6
dictionary6
python6
dataframe6
pandas6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
chanzuckerberg/cellxgene
Dec 2018 - Jul 2019
An interactive explorer for single-cell transcriptomics data
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 25 PRs, 35 pushes in 7 months
Contributions summary:Justin primarily focused on enhancing the documentation and user interface of the cellxgene project. Their contributions include updates to the documentation layout, improvements to the landing page, and home page fixes. Furthermore, they modified the graph component to include a FAQ and chat link and added a section to the index pages describing the risks of hosted instances. These changes suggest a focus on user experience and information presentation.
visualizationscrna-seqbioinformaticsscientificdataviz
chanzuckerberg/napari-plugin-alfa-cohort
Dec 2020 - May 2021
Repo for the CZI Imaging Team's napari plugin Alfa Cohort collaboration
Contributions:6 reviews, 85 commits, 34 PRs in 4 months
collaborationimagingalfanapari-pluginnapari
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