Ken Brewer
Scientific Solutions Lead at Ken Brewer Consulting LLC
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolKen Brewer is a Scientific Solutions Lead and computational biologist with nine years of experience building scalable, cloud-first bioinformatics platforms and ML-driven analysis for genomics and high-throughput imaging. He has shipped mission-critical sequencer-to-variant pipelines in production, led multi-omic and GWAS projects using UK Biobank data, and designed infrastructure to functionally annotate tens of thousands of previously uncharacterized human proteins. Comfortable as an early technical hire in startups and as a platform architect in clinical diagnostics, Ken combines reproducible workflow engineering (nf-core/Nextflow) with practical ML for morphological profiling. An active open-source maintainer and co-author of pycytominer, he also contributes to community tooling and governance through Seqera, SBI2, and WEST, bringing a rare mix of hands-on coding, cloud migration experience, and scientific domain depth.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Moleculary Biophysics and Biochemistry, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Moleculary Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale UniversityBachelor of Science (BS), Chemistry, Bachelor of Science (BS), Chemistry at Harvard College
Chinese, French, Spanish, Russian, German
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Github Skills (134)
slurm10
dataflow10
python10
image-processing10
variants10
pipeline-framework10
immunology10
disposable10
linter10
linting10
genomics10
nf-core10
microscopy10
data-driven10
jetbrains10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
kenibrewer/pycytominer
Jan 2023 - Apr 2024
cytominer python package
Contributions:3 PRs, 169 pushes, 58 branches in 1 year 3 months
pythoncytoscapejspython-3python-packagecytominer
kenibrewer/bioconda-recipes
Jun 2021 - Mar 2025
Conda recipes for the bioconda channel.
Contributions:9 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 10 months
biocondabioinformaticsrecipesconda
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