Marton Kanasz-nagy

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

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Marton Kanasz-nagy is a physicist-turned-software engineer in Boston with a decade of experience applying data, modeling, and simulation to real-world problems. He blends deep quantitative training (PhD summa cum laude in Physics) with practical technology scaling know-how from Harvard Business School programs and entrepreneurship/UX coursework. On GitHub he has contributed backend enhancements to the widely used GATK toolkit, improving core variant-calling engines and tooling for genomic data processing. Marton is particularly focused on practical machine intelligence applications and translating scientific insight into production-ready tools. He values cross-disciplinary collaboration and routinely solicits new ideas from teammates and domain experts to shape impactful solutions.

10 years of coding experience

Master of Science (M.Sc.), Engineering Physics, Summa cum laude, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Engineering Physics, Summa cum laude at Budapest University of Technology and Economics

Scaling Technology Ventures, Auditor, Scaling Technology Ventures, Auditor at Harvard Business School

Entrepreneurship and UX design courses, Entrepreneurship and UX design courses at Acquincum Institute of Technology

Hungarian, German, English

Github Skills (11)

bioinformatics10

javas10

excel-dna10

genomics10

genome10

gatk10

java10

sequencing10

genomes10

testing10

spark9

Programming languages (5)

JavaCSSScalaRubywdl

Github contributions (5)

broadinstitute/gatk

Oct 2017 - Jan 2019

Official code repository for GATK versions 4 and up

Role in this project:

Back-end Developer

Contributions:285 commits, 18 PRs, 95 pushes in 1 year 3 months

Contributions summary:Marton contributed to the development of tools for processing genomic data within the GATK framework. Their work focused on implementing new tools, such as PreprocessIntervals, and modifying existing ones like SelectVariants. They also made improvements to the Mutect2 and HaplotypeCaller engines, which are core components for variant calling and analysis. The commits involved changes in Java code, related test cases and improvements to documentation.

genomesciencednaspark-mlngs

MartonKN/Skyrmions

Mar 2017 - Mar 2017

Contributions:14 commits, 9 pushes in 1 day

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