Kyle Hernandez
Senior Director, Translational Informatics
Benton Harbor, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKyle Hernandez is a Senior Director of Translational Informatics with 12 years of cross-species bioinformatics and genetics experience, currently leading efforts at Belay Diagnostics to turn biomedical data into actionable translational discoveries. He has built and managed multidisciplinary teams and secure, production-grade data platforms at the University of Chicago, co-PIing large initiatives like the VA Data Commons and driving workflow and automation systems for genomic data. Combining a PhD in Ecology, Evolution and Behavior with hands-on postdoctoral and pipeline development experience, he bridges rigorous quantitative genetics, workflow engineering, and clinical-compliance constraints. Known for creating team training programs and a lab-style scientific forum, he emphasizes reproducible analyses, mentorship, and architectures that directly improve patient outcomes.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Biology, B.S. Biology at Texas Tech UniversityPh.D. Ecology Evolution and Behavior, Ph.D. Ecology Evolution and Behavior at Purdue University
Github Skills (143)
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Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
kmhernan/kmhernan.github.io
Oct 2016 - Dec 2023
My bio and homepage
Contributions:2 PRs, 20 pushes, 3 branches in 7 years 3 months
reactbio
kmhernan/awesome-bioinformatics-formats
Mar 2019 - Mar 2019
Curated list of bioinformatics formats and publications
Contributions:38 commits, 13 PRs, 30 pushes in 5 days
bioinformaticsformatsgenomicspublications
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