Yozen Hernandez
Bioinformatics Specialist I
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolYozen Hernandez is a Bioinformatics Specialist and software developer with a PhD in Bioinformatics and over a decade of hands-on experience bridging computational research and lab-focused IT. Based at Rockefeller University, he applies deep expertise in sequence analysis, pipeline development, and tools like BioPerl, R, and classic phylogenetics packages to support and advance experimental programs. Concurrently he manages multi-platform computer labs at Hunter College, maintaining Linux and macOS infrastructure and delivering services from authentication to backup and web hosting—bringing rare full-stack sysadmin skills into bioinformatics environments. His work blends rigorous academic research on tandem repeats with practical software engineering and systems administration, enabling reproducible analysis and reliable lab computing at scale.
15 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Computer Science, concentration in Bioinformatics, BA, Computer Science, concentration in Bioinformatics at Hunter CollegePhD, Bioinformatics, PhD, Bioinformatics at Boston University
Japanese, Spanish
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Github Skills (88)
package-management10
perl10
excel10
tcl10
sequence-analysis10
awk10
conda10
vba10
cobol10
xslt10
bioinformatics10
brainfuck10
dna-sequences10
prolog10
postscript10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
yzhernand/yzhernand.github.io
May 2019 - Apr 2023
Contributions:30 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 11 months
yzhernand/VNTRseek-Reader
Apr 2016 - May 2019
Contributions:1 release, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
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