Thomas Person
Owner at The Tree of Life Biotech Services, LLC
Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolThomas Person is an experienced bioinformatics engineer and entrepreneur with 11+ years building scalable genomic data systems, from NoSQL variant stores to FHIR-enabled clinical integrations and Azure Spark pipelines. He transitioned from systems and network administration into genomics, blending hands-on infrastructure skills with advanced bioinformatics practice—implementing ETL for VCF-to-Parquet, containerized pipelines, and RESTful APIs for large-scale variant and phenotypic data. As a Penn State PhD candidate in Genomics and Bioinformatics, he develops AI-driven tools for detecting horizontal gene transfer and has contributed code such as a Python RIFTEHR implementation and R standardization work for MethylIT. His work spans personalized medicine, population genetics, and pharmacogenomics, with practical experience moving research-grade sequencing through CLIA confirmation into EHR systems. Known for bridging research and production, he uniquely combines low-level system administration experience with domain expertise in translational informatics.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Genomics and Bioinformatics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Genomics and Bioinformatics at Penn State UniversityHigh School, High School at Round Rock High SchoolIntegrity first, Service before self, and Excellence in all we do, Integrity first, Service before self, and Excellence in all we do at U.S. Air Force Basic Military TrainingBachelor’s Degree, Biochemistry, Bachelor’s Degree, Biochemistry at Angelo State UniversityMaster’s Degree, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Master’s Degree, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at The University of Texas at Dallas3c0x1 Communications - Computer Systems Operations, 3c0x1 Communications - Computer Systems Operations at U.S. Air Force Technical Training
java, perl, python, bash, r, sql, English, matlab, php, scala
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Github Skills (8)
cancer-genomics9
variants9
bioinformatics9
clinical-trials8
predictor8
rna-seq7
genomics7
machine-learning4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
RitchieLab/dnanexus
Apr 2016 - Jul 2018
Contributions:62 commits, 1 PR in 2 years 2 months
thomasperson/clinvar
Dec 2018 - Aug 2020
This repo provides tools to convert ClinVar data into a tab-delimited flat file, and also provides that resulting tab-delimited flat file.
Contributions:74 pushes in 1 year 8 months
clinvardelimitedpythonflat-file
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