Tanner Koomar
Senior Data Scientist
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTanner Koomar is a Senior Data Scientist with a PhD in Genetics and a decade of experience applying machine learning, statistical genetics, and cloud/HPC infrastructure to questions at the intersection of language development and neuropsychiatric cognition. He progressed from molecular bench work in C. elegans and undergraduate studies in theatre and nonprofit management to leading computational genomics projects, mentoring students, and building reproducible pipelines in R, Python, SQL, and shell. At Recursion he has scaled high-throughput analytics into production workflows, drawing on prior academic work designing pipelines for next‑gen sequencing and SNP-array data. He is also a practiced science communicator who prioritizes thoughtful public translation of research findings. An underappreciated thread through his career is the blend of humanities-trained communication and rigorous computational methods, which helps him make complex genetic results accessible to diverse stakeholders.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Genetics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Genetics at University of Iowa
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (30)
seq10
reformat9
rna-seq9
genomics8
bioinformatics8
snakemake8
html6
range-slider6
sqlite-database6
javascript6
scalable5
genome5
database4
discovery3
sql3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
tkoomar/VCFdbR
Apr 2020 - Jul 2021
These scripts reformat a VCF into a SQLite database, with R
Contributions:35 commits, 2 PRs, 18 pushes in 1 year 2 months
sqlreformatsqlitedatabasevcf
tkoomar/tidytuesday
Nov 2018 - Feb 2020
Official repo for the #tidytuesday project
Contributions:22 pushes in 1 year 3 months
tidytuesday
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