Sean Black
Software Engineer NIH NIAID (Bioinformatics & Computational Biosciences Branch)
Clarksburg, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolSean Black is a software engineer and bioinformatics data scientist with eight years of experience building scalable genomic data pipelines and full-stack applications for NIH and research labs. At NIAID/NIH he engineers SLURM- and AWS-backed workflows (including GATK-SV) and integrates CI/CD and containerized deployments to make research-grade analyses production-ready and clinically applicable. His background spans hands-on lab genomics through automation and high-throughput QC to modernizing pipelines with tools like Polars for 10x performance gains, reflecting a rare blend of wet-lab insight and production software craftsmanship. Sean is comfortable across Python, Bash, Perl, PostgreSQL, Docker, and cloud infrastructure, and he pairs Agile collaboration with a practical focus on reproducibility and validation. Outside work he balances technical curiosity—cryptocurrency trading and side coding projects—with family life and outdoor pursuits, which helps him approach problems with both discipline and creativity.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Biochemistry, Bachelor of Science - BS, Biochemistry at Virginia TechMaster's degree, Bioinformatics, Master's degree, Bioinformatics at Johns Hopkins University Advanced Academic Programs
Github Skills (1)
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
seann27/NFLDB_Project
Feb 2019 - Feb 2020
Contributions:45 commits, 84 pushes, 8 branches in 11 months
seann27/NCBI_ProteinDB_Search
Jul 2021 - Jul 2021
Contributions:11 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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