Yunhai Luo
Senior Bioinformatics Software Engineer
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolYunhai Luo is a Senior Bioinformatics Software Engineer with nine years of experience building scalable, FAIR genomic data platforms and production-grade pipelines at organizations including Genentech, Invitae, and Stanford. He blends deep wet-lab knowledge (NGS, CRISPR screens, library prep, FACS) with strong software engineering—Python, Go, R/Bioconductor, React, containerization, WDL/Nextflow, and cloud/HPC deployments—enabling end-to-end reproducible workflows across AWS/GCP and on-prem clusters. At Invitae he led adoption of modern workflow managers and regulatory-compliant production data management; at Stanford he helped model complex ENCODE metadata and dockerized pipelines for uniform analyses. He has a PhD in Genetics from Cornell and a track record of peer-reviewed publications and international conference presentations that bridge experimental insight with computational rigor. Notably, he mentors open-source projects and maintains an ETL pipeline for UCSC Xena’s cancer data import, demonstrating a commitment to community resources and interoperable data.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Genetics and Development, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Genetics and Development at Cornell UniversityBachelor of Science (BS) Biological Science and Biotechnology, Bachelor of Science (BS) Biological Science and Biotechnology at Tsinghua University
Chinese, English
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Github Skills (181)
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
ucscXena/xena-GDC-ETL
May 2017 - Aug 2019
Contributions:4 releases, 133 commits, 71 PRs in 2 years 3 months
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yunhailuo/FAST-iCLIP
Jul 2016 - Feb 2018
Contributions:4 PRs, 45 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 7 months
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