Jason Yamada-hanff
Principal Bioinformatics Scientist
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolJason Yamada-hanff is a Principal Bioinformatics Scientist with 15 years of experience at the intersection of computational biology, software engineering, and computer vision. With a PhD in Neuroscience from Harvard Medical School, he leads teams building production-grade pipelines, machine-vision devices, and cloud services—blending statistical inference, SQL-backed architectures, and reproducible data platforms. He has a track record of performance and resource optimizations (e.g., 10×–30× image processing speedups and 100× memory reductions for sequencing analyses) and routinely ships solutions in Python, R, Docker, and PostgreSQL. Comfortable across many languages from C++ to Haskell and Rust, he combines deep domain knowledge in biology with pragmatic systems design. Based in Los Angeles, he’s equally at home mentoring engineers and rolling up his sleeves to implement efficient, auditable pipelines that enable new scientific insights. An underrated strength is his history of modernizing legacy scientific codebases and tooling—bringing reproducibility and testing to research software.
15 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Biology, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Biology at Swarthmore CollegeDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Neuroscience, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Neuroscience at Harvard Medical School
Stackoverflow
298reputation
13kreached
2answers
4questions
Github Skills (63)
react-motion10
atmel10
firmware10
qmk10
usb10
statistical-inference10
avr10
major-mode10
core-library9
singularity9
reproducible-science9
reproducible-research9
nextflow9
linux9
bioinformatics9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
yamad/igorunit
Apr 2011 - Oct 2013
Contributions:134 commits in 2 years 5 months
yamad/r2d3-decision-tree
Apr 2016 - Aug 2017
A clone of the animated decision tree at http://www.r2d3.us/ in React, React-Motion, and d3
Contributions:52 commits, 10 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 3 months
decision-treereactreact-motion
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.