Tim Poterba
Systems Engineer at BROAD INSTITUTE INC
Portland, Maine, United States
Summary
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RockstarTim Poterba is a computational biologist and systems engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable, search-first infrastructure for genomics. He co-founded E9 Genomics and now leads Phoebe Genomics to make clinicogenomic collections discoverable, drawing on deep technical leadership at the Broad Institute where he was technical lead for Hail Query—an optimizing compiler and distributed engine used by gnomAD, UK Biobank, and All of Us. Comfortable implementing low-level JVM optimizations, custom serializers, and distributed query planners, he bridges biology and production-grade backend engineering. An active open-source contributor to Hail, Tim combines entrepreneurial drive with domain expertise to turn petabyte-scale genomic data into searchable, actionable resources.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (9)
serialization10
code-generation10
data-serialization10
scala10
data-structure9
back-end-development9
data-structures9
type-system9
genomics8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
hail-is/hail
Sep 2015 - Jan 2023
Cloud-native genomic dataframes and batch computing
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 releases, 947 reviews, 2549 commits in 7 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Tim's commits are focused on enhancing the functionality and reliability of the Hail framework, specifically in the area of genomic data analysis. The user worked on the encoding of struct data, implementing a custom serializer to address data issues. They also contributed to refactoring and enhancing the core components used in the processing of data. Contributions included fixes for the type systems, data structures, and code generation techniques.
scalabledata-analysispythongeneticshail
tpoterba/hail
Aug 2016 - Jun 2023
Hail, a framework for scalable genetic data analysis
Contributions:1 review, 22 PRs, 3796 pushes in 6 years 11 months
scalabledata-analysispythonhailgenetic-data
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