Le Zhang
Senior Bioinformatics Scientist Engineer
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolLe Zhang is a Senior Bioinformatics Scientist Engineer with over a decade working at the intersection of genomics and aging research, and eight years building bioinformatics tools and production data pipelines. He has led data engineering for large multi-site studies (notably the ABCD Study) and developed production software like ABCDscores, NBDCtools, and the DEAP backend, standardizing ingestion and QC across teams. A prolific open-source contributor, he maintains 10+ R/Bioconductor packages and 100+ public projects, and ranks in the top 1% for Shiny/web development on StackOverflow. His work spans everything from sequencing-based variant detection for Parkinson’s cell therapies to automated ETL, Kubernetes/Docker orchestration, and interactive data portals used by hundreds of scientists. Combining a PhD in Genetics, hands-on lab experience, and production-grade engineering, he uniquely bridges computational drug discovery, reproducible pipelines, and user-facing analytics.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Genetics Genomics & Bioinformatics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Genetics Genomics & Bioinformatics at University of California, RiversideBachelor's Degree Biochemistry/ Molecular biology &Biotechnology, Bachelor's Degree Biochemistry/ Molecular biology &Biotechnology at Michigan State University
Thai, Chinese, English
Stackoverflow
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271answers
6questions
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Github Skills (167)
activity-monitor10
bioconductor10
shiny-apps10
r10
shiny10
r-package10
rstudio10
reactive9
htmlwidgets9
data-visualization9
addin9
shinydashboard9
web-development9
visualization9
reproducible-research9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
systemPipeR/systemPipeRdata
May 2022 - Oct 2024
Contributions:4 PRs, 44 pushes in 2 years 5 months
systemPipeR/systemPipeShiny
Feb 2020 - Nov 2022
A Shiny framework for workflow management and data visualization
Contributions:484 commits, 153 PRs, 145 pushes in 2 years 9 months
workflowdata-and-visualizationshinybioconductorsystempiper
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