René Zelaya is a registered nurse and former software engineer with 12 years of experience bridging clinical care, bioinformatics, and full‑stack development. Currently at Yale Health Center, René brings clinical expertise across specialty services and cardiac step‑down care while applying a systems mindset honed building web servers, APIs, and Python packages in academic labs. His background includes bioinformatics programming at UPenn and Dartmouth where he coauthored papers, led code review and Scrum, and built tools to make complex genomic data accessible to biologists. René’s blend of clinical practice, public health passion, and environmental and education advocacy gives him a rare cross-disciplinary perspective on healthcare technology and patient-centered solutions. Fluent in Spanish and experienced in mentoring, he has a track record of training colleagues and translating technical concepts for diverse audiences.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science in Nursing, Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing, Master of Science in Nursing, Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing at Fairfield University
Bachelor of Arts, Engineering Sciences modified; Public Policy, Bachelor of Arts, Engineering Sciences modified; Public Policy at Dartmouth College
High School, High School at American School Foundation (High School)
An open-source webserver that allows for easy, reproducible genomics analyses between different webservers
Contributions:226 commits, 10 PRs, 15 pushes in 2 years 1 month
pythongene-setsweb-serveranalyseswebservers
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René Zelaya - Registered Nurse at Yale Health Center