Niels Hanson
Managing Director, Data Scientist
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNiels Hanson is a Managing Director and data scientist with 13 years of experience delivering cloud, data, and AI transformations for clients in finance, retail, and healthcare. He combines deep technical fluency across AWS, GCP, and Azure with a business-first approach to design ML solutions that meet regulatory and operational constraints. At KPMG he has scaled global teams and built managed services that translate AI into measurable cost savings, revenue growth, and risk reduction. His background includes a PhD in Bioinformatics and hands-on work building distributed sequence-analysis pipelines, reflecting a strong foundation in scalable data engineering and research-grade tooling. Niels is as comfortable architecting enterprise ML platforms as he is mentoring talent and driving thought leadership across complex engagements. He often bridges academic rigor and enterprise practicality—turning advanced algorithms into production-ready systems in tightly regulated environments.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Bioinformatics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Bioinformatics at The University of British Columbia
Github Skills (18)
microbial-genomics7
bioinformatics6
meta-analysis6
placement6
hierarchical6
prediction5
phylogenetics5
taxonomy4
classification4
python3
throughput3
frame3
machine-learning2
pytorch2
scalable2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
hallamlab/MetaPathways
Jan 2013 - Jan 2014
Contributions:14 commits in 1 year
hallamlab/LCAStar
Mar 2014 - Sep 2016
Alternative taxonomic consensus algorithms based on the NCBI taxonomy tree
Contributions:27 commits, 4 pushes in 2 years 6 months
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