Darrell Nabors
Bioinformatics Systems Engineer
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDarrell Nabors is a Bioinformatics Systems Engineer with 11 years of experience building and operating NGS data pipelines and laboratory informatics in leading academic medical centers. Based in New York, he currently manages Illumina data curation, QC, demultiplexing and alignment workflows at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and helps shape LIMS features and best practices. He combines hands-on Linux systems administration and Python tooling with deep domain knowledge in whole exome/genome, RNA-seq, targeted capture and CRISPR screen sequencing. His background spans research and production environments—from developing web and database tools for Vanderbilt’s VANTAGE platform to validating new sequencing platforms for clinical research. Comfortable investigating deviations from SOPs and translating findings into actionable improvements, he bridges experimental and computational teams to deliver reliable, high-quality sequencing data. Trained in bioinformatics at Johns Hopkins and grounded in an earlier engineering career at IBM, he brings both rigorous troubleshooting skills and scalable systems thinking.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
CourseraBS, Electrical/Computer Engineering, BS, Electrical/Computer Engineering at Tennessee State UniversityJohns Hopkins University
Github Skills (5)
fastq-files9
illumina9
email-delivery4
restful1
fingerprinting1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
darrelln32/myfia
Jan 2015 - Jan 2015
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
mskcc/igo-demux
Feb 2022 - Jan 2023
Demultiplex Illumina sequencer output via DRAGEN, create fastq files and launch pipelines
Contributions:1 review, 116 commits, 7 PRs in 11 months
fastq-filesillumina
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