Nick Ren
Principal Software Engineer at Actio Biosciences, Inc.
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolNick Ren is a Principal Software Engineer in New York with 11 years building production-grade genomics and big-data systems that bridge clinical diagnostics and cloud infrastructure. He led large-scale migrations and cost-saving cloud optimizations at Columbia University—moving 1PB to AWS S3, shrinking data center footprint to one-third, and cutting S3 costs by over two-thirds—while authoring and operating the ATAV platform used for clinical exome analysis. Known for making "simple things simple and complex things possible," he has deep experience in distributed storage and analytics (Spark/Hadoop), database design and replication, and efficient genomic coverage encoding that enabled storage of 100k+ exomes. At Actio Biosciences he now applies that domain expertise to production bioinformatics engineering and platformization. Beyond hands-on systems work he has a track record of research impact (peer-reviewed ATAV paper), open-source tooling, and grant-level technical foresight.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Computer Science, Master, Computer Science at University of North Carolina at CharlotteBS, Mathematics and Computer Science, BS, Mathematics and Computer Science at Shenzhen University
Chinese, English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
65reputation
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1answer
10questions
Github Skills (65)
diagnostic-tool10
genomics10
bioinformatics10
population-genetics10
scale9
genes8
transcript8
als8
ai7
owl6
django6
database6
bufferedimage6
sql6
forloop6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
nickzren/genic
Mar 2015 - Feb 2019
Contributions:1 release, 6 PRs, 52 pushes in 4 years
nickzren/alsdb
Mar 2015 - Jul 2023
ALS Data Browser
Contributions:1 release, 1 PR, 112 pushes in 8 years 5 months
alsjsjavascriptbrowser
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