Taylor O'connell
Staff Bioinformatics Scientist
San Diego, California, United States
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Top SchoolTaylor O'connell is a Staff Bioinformatics Scientist with 10 years of experience bridging academic research and industry R&D, currently leading bioinformatics for a multi-institute project surveying marine microbial and viral diversity across hundreds of coral reef sites. He combines deep NGS and metagenomics expertise with practical software engineering—building scalable Python/Perl/Bash pipelines and custom reference databases—to move data from raw reads through assembly, annotation, and visualization. At Illumina he progressed through successive engineering and scientist roles, bringing production-grade practices to research workflows and mentoring more than a dozen trainees in high-performance computing. His academic work pairs machine learning and optimization methods with genome-scale metabolic modeling, reflecting a knack for integrating diverse data types into reproducible analyses. Based in San Diego, he is as comfortable debugging cluster jobs and writing deployable code as presenting ecological insights to multi-disciplinary collaborators.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Bioengineering, GPA: 3.15, Bachelor of Science, Bioengineering, GPA: 3.15 at UCSDSan Diego State University
Github Skills (4)
bioinformatics4
validate3
machine-learning2
python1
Github contributions (5)
taylor-oconnell/gapfilling_metabolic_networks
Oct 2015 - Jul 2016
Contributions:43 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
taylor-oconnell/PyFBA
Mar 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
pythonbalanceflux-balance-analysispython-implementationmicrobial
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