Pajau Vangay
Sr. Director, Scientific Network at Hypothesis Fund
Greater Sacramento United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolPajau Vangay is a microbiome scientist and computational leader with a decade of experience building scientific communities, shaping public policy, and translating complex bioinformatics for diverse audiences. Currently Sr. Director of Scientific Network at Hypothesis Fund, he combines a PhD in Bioinformatics with hands-on research roles at Berkeley Lab, University of Minnesota, and Cornell to drive equitable, democratized science. His background uniquely spans software engineering early in his career and advanced microbiome research, enabling him to bridge technical, scientific, and policy domains. Known for science outreach and community engagement, he designs programs that broaden participation and make research outputs accessible beyond academia. Based in Greater Sacramento, he brings a pragmatic mix of technical rigor and stakeholder-savvy leadership to accelerate translational and community-centered science.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BS/MS, Computer Science, BS/MS, Computer Science at Colorado School of MinesMS, Food Microbiology, MS, Food Microbiology at Cornell UniversityUniversity of Minnesota Twin Cities
Github Skills (30)
microbiome10
transcriptomics7
genomics7
portal5
artifacts5
metadata5
schema4
specification4
linkml4
json-schema3
data-management2
sustainability2
pii2
bioinformatics2
metadata-management2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
knights-lab/IMP_analyses
Oct 2016 - May 2021
immigrant microbiome project related analyses
Contributions:54 commits, 1 PR, 48 pushes in 4 years 7 months
immigrantmicrobiomeanalyses
knights-lab/wgt
Mar 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.