Alexander Swafford
Software Engineer, Bioinformatics @Joint Genome Institute
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WORK HISTORY
Software Engineer, Bioinformatics @Joint Genome Institute
Maintain and update 20yr legacy codebase of the Fungal and Algal Genomics team- Rewrite, optimize, and merge annotator scripts into production code- Build analytics pipelines for large scale genomic analysis in HPC environment- Test and integrate third party tools and software to improve existing functionality
EDUCATION
Cornell University
Marine Biology
Harvey Mudd College
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science
SKILLS
ABOUT ALEXANDER SWAFFORD
I am a Bioinformatics Software Engineer with a breadth of cross-disciplinary experience in genomics, primarily focusing on developing custom tools, APIs, and pipelines to support scientific research. I am passionate about bridging the divide between engineering and science, translating the needs of researchers into projects and code, as well as clearly communicating between the domains.
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