Tavi Nathanson
Founder at Purple Computer
Princeton, New Jersey, United States
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Top SchoolTavi Nathanson is a founder and principal software engineer with 12 years of experience building software, data science, and bioinformatics solutions focused on oncology. He runs Sequence Software, where he designs cloud infrastructure and pipelines for next-generation sequencing, develops clinical and genomic visualization tools, and builds ML models for multi-omic data. Previously he led biomarker discovery projects and open-source tooling at Mount Sinai and ran search ranking teams at Salesforce, combining academic rigor with product-scale engineering. Based in New York City, he now also launches consumer-focused and creative ventures—transforming old laptops into offline kids’ devices and producing local comedy shows—reflecting a blend of technical entrepreneurship and playful experimentation. Collected across academia, industry, and consulting, his work emphasizes reproducibility, cost-effective systems, and turning complex biomedical research into usable software.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, B.S., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
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Github Skills (65)
python10
caller10
sequencing10
algorithms10
scientific-computing9
genomics9
command-line9
bioinformatics9
sequence9
scipy9
rna-seq8
immunology8
data-management8
parsing8
affinity8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
purplecomputerorg/purplecomputer
Nov 2025 - Jul 2026
A calm, offline computer for kids ages 3-10! All the code is public to read and tinker with (source available, not open source).
Contributions:7 PRs, 544 pushes, 5 branches in 7 months
kidsupcyclingsource-available
hammerlab/topeology
Sep 2015 - Dec 2018
Contributions:81 commits, 6 PRs, 77 pushes in 3 years 3 months
bioinformatics
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