Nathaniel Hayden
Senior Software Engineer (Platform Engineering)
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNathaniel Hayden is a Senior Software Engineer in New York with 12 years of experience building cloud-native, high-throughput systems and developer-focused tooling. He moves fluidly between low-level performance work—authoring high-performance R/C++ extensions for genomic analysis at Fred Hutch—and large-scale cloud services, now contributing to Kubernetes- and Spark-based data processing and ML infrastructure at Bloomberg. Nathaniel has a track record of raising engineering standards and shipping pragmatic, measurable improvements: from speeding genomic pipelines and modernizing C++ codebases to redesigning cloud-native notification platforms that dramatically boosted adoption. Comfortable across Go, Python, R, C/C++ and distributed systems, he combines deep profiling and benchmarking instincts with a user-centered focus that prioritizes real-world impact. A globe-trotting volunteer earlier in his career, he brings both technical rigor and a practical, people-first perspective to complex engineering problems.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of Washington
Spanish, French, Chinese, Greek
Github Skills (35)
file-import10
bam9
rhdf59
next-generation-sequencing9
r-package9
tabix9
bioconductor9
bioinformatics9
fasta9
core-package9
htslib9
c-library8
sequencing8
sam8
hdf8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
nhayden/Rhtslib
Jan 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:12 commits, 88 pushes, 9 branches in 6 months
sequencebioinformaticshigh-throughputthroughputsequence-analysis
nhayden/htslib
Jan 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:54 pushes, 12 branches in 4 months
c-librarysequencing-datadata-formatshigh-throughput-sequencingsequencing
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