Samuel Clamons
Bioinformatic Scientist
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSamuel Clamons is a bioinformatic scientist with 11 years of cross-disciplinary experience combining synthetic biology, mathematical modeling, and data-driven software engineering. He holds a PhD in Bioengineering from Caltech, where he developed CRISPRi circuit models, built lab automation and analysis software for liquid handlers and plate readers, and released a widely used cloning toolkit on Addgene. Currently at Illumina, he applies population genomics and computational support to R&D products, bringing both wet‑lab insight and production-ready code. An active contributor to open-source testing infrastructure, he has strengthened the Hypothesis property-based testing suite by improving tests for edge cases like non-finite numeric values. Comfortable across Linux, Windows, and macOS environments, he bridges experimental design and reproducible computational pipelines to accelerate biological discovery and impact human health.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Mathematics, BS, Mathematics at The College of William and MaryCalifornia Institute of Technology
Github Skills (5)
property-based-testing10
pytest10
python10
testing10
fuzzing9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
HypothesisWorks/hypothesis
Jul 2022 - Jul 2022
The property-based testing library for Python
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:1 review, 8 commits, 5 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Samuel's commits primarily involve enhancing the test suite for the Hypothesis library. They added tests for filter rewriting, particularly focusing on non-finite values for floats and integers. The contributions also included fixing existing filter rewriting tests and general improvements to testing infrastructure and code.
property-based-testingpythontestingfuzzing
sclamons/murraylab_tools
Nov 2016 - Dec 2020
Functions for building Echo picklists and directions for setting up source plates for the Echo. Mostly intended for setting up TX-TL experiments.
Contributions:1 release, 515 commits, 15 PRs in 4 years 1 month
platesdirectionsechosetting
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