Neil Huang
Global Biomarker Lead - Precision Medicine at Amgen
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolNeil Huang is a data-driven scientist with over a decade of hands-on experience in bioanalytical, in vitro/ex vivo, and in vivo studies focused on liver and cardiometabolic diseases, now advancing genomic medicine at Alexion, AstraZeneca Rare Disease. He has led multiple clinical biomarker projects and cross-functional collaborations, bringing deep expertise in LC-MS/MS, ligand binding assays, immunohistochemistry, and genomic assays to gene therapy and gene-editing programs. His background spans academic and industry roles—from developing novel biomarker methods and PD/PK studies in NASH models to managing vendors and multicenter clinical-study timelines—demonstrating both technical rigor and program management. Comfortable with omics and clinical data analysis (R, MetaboAnalyst, MassHunter), Neil also contributes to cloud infrastructure projects on GitHub, applying infrastructure-as-code skills to support scalable research workflows. Colleagues describe him as a collaborative mentor who translates complex experimental designs into robust, reproducible assays that accelerate translational decision-making.
7 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) at Penn State UniversityBachelor of Science (B.S.) Nutrition and Health Sciences, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Nutrition and Health Sciences at Fooyin UniversityAssociate of Science (A.S.) Clinical Laboratory Science/Medical Technology/Technologist, Associate of Science (A.S.) Clinical Laboratory Science/Medical Technology/Technologist at Yuanpei UniversityMaster of Science (MS) Molecular Nutrition; Molecular Biology, Master of Science (MS) Molecular Nutrition; Molecular Biology at Taipei Medical University
English, Mandarin, Chinese
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Github Skills (18)
aws-cdk10
typescript10
cloud-infrastructure10
aws10
typescript-types10
infrastructure-as-code10
typescripts10
cloud-services10
aws-ecs9
docker8
kubernetes-pods8
dockers8
kubernetes8
lambda7
lambdas7
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
aws/aws-cdk
Oct 2020 - Dec 2022
The AWS Cloud Development Kit is a framework for defining cloud infrastructure in code
Role in this project:
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure Engineer
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure EngineerContributions:27 reviews, 13 commits, 20 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Neil primarily contributed to enhancing the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) for managing AWS infrastructure. Their work focused on adding support for new versions of database engines like MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Aurora PostgreSQL within the RDS service. They also implemented features related to Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), specifically integrating the aws-node-termination-handler for spot instances, and improved the flexibility of ECS capacity providers. Furthermore, the user added support for all runtimes in AppRunner and deprecated dotnetcore3.1 in Lambda.
awscloud-development-kitcloud-infrastructureinfrastructure-as-codetypescript
neilkuan/eks-mg-lab
Sep 2021 - Jan 2023
eks-mg-lab
Contributions:1 review, 445 commits, 658 PRs in 1 year 4 months
reacttypescriptlabeks
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