Darren Kessner
Senior Software Engineer at Marlborough School
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolDarren Kessner is a Senior Software Engineer and educator in Los Angeles who blends seven years of professional engineering with a deep academic background (PhD in Bioinformatics) to build robust tools for computational biology, proteomics, and clinical data. He splits his time between the Ellison Medical Institute—where he develops AI-driven analysis, visualization, and sequencing/mass-spec pipelines—and leading the Computer Science program at Marlborough School, integrating computational thinking across disciplines. His career spans low-level systems and high-level UIs, from kernel-aware security and antivirus engines to cross-platform scientific libraries like ProteoWizard, reflecting a rare combination of algorithmic rigor and production-grade software design. Darren also runs HPC workshops for biomedical researchers and has a history of consulting and teaching that makes him especially effective at translating research needs into usable pipelines and visualizations. Colleagues value him for producing testable, maintainable code while mentoring others and bringing classroom clarity to complex technical problems.
8 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Bioinformatics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Bioinformatics at University of California, Los AngelesMA, Mathematics, MA, Mathematics at Princeton University
Github Skills (8)
html10
js10
javascript10
p5js10
jupyter-notebook1
python1
jupyter1
turtle-graphics1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
dkessner/ProcessingGdxAdapter
Aug 2019 - Jul 2022
A re-implementation of the Processing API on top of libgdx.
Contributions:1 PR, 5 pushes in 2 years 11 months
apire-implementationon-topjavalibgdx
dkessner/processing-p5-convert
Nov 2020 - Sep 2021
Contributions:2 releases, 99 commits, 241 pushes in 9 months
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