Onur Sakarya
Staff Data & Bioinformatics Scientist
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolOnur Sakarya is a Staff Data & Bioinformatics Scientist with eight years of industry experience and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UC Santa Barbara, blending deep computational expertise with molecular biology training. He has been part of founding teams and led algorithmic development in genomics and epigenomics at companies like GRAIL and Natera, plus academic roles as an adjunct associate professor and visiting affiliate. His work spans statistical machine learning, DNA sequencing bioinformatics, and production-ready pipelines for clinical-grade applications. Comfortable switching between research and product contexts, he has consulted independently and returned to industry leadership, reflecting both entrepreneurial initiative and domain depth. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he pairs rigorous academic roots with hands-on experience shipping algorithms that impact diagnostics and translational research.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Computer Engineering and Information Science, B.S., Computer Engineering and Information Science at Bilkent UniversityPh.D, Computer Science, Ph.D, Computer Science at UC Santa Barbara
Github Skills (6)
r-package9
bioinformatics9
r8
nim-language2
bam1
swig1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
grailbio/conta
Jul 2017 - Jan 2020
Conta is an R package to detect cross contamination and source of contamination
Contributions:46 commits in 2 years 6 months
rr-packagebioinformaticscontaminationngs
osakarya/test
Nov 2019 - Nov 2019
test features
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 3 branches in 1 day
testing
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