Nathan Hammond
Bioinformatics Consultant
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolNathan Hammond is a results-driven bioinformatician and software engineer with 12+ years delivering cloud-native pipelines, full-stack analytics, and clinical diagnostics tools in biotech and healthcare. Based in San Francisco, he has led multi-disciplinary teams at Stanford Health Care and Takara Bio USA, building user-friendly RNA-Seq analysis platforms and shaping cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, and deployment workflows across AWS, GCP, Terraform, Kubernetes, and Nextflow. He co-created and led the Loom bioinformatics pipeline framework and has hands-on experience with LIMS, REST APIs, Docker, Cromwell, and mature pipelines for PacBio long-read data and whole-genome diagnostics. His work includes validating gene panels for inherited diseases, presenting at ASHG, and bridging wet-lab needs with scalable software solutions. Nathan holds a PhD in Mechanical Engineering with Bioengineering from MIT, underscoring a strong foundation at the intersection of biology, engineering, and software.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Mechanical Engineering Bioengineering, PhD Mechanical Engineering Bioengineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Spanish, French, Portuguese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (52)
snakemake10
python10
pipeline10
ansible10
bioinformatics10
wdl10
ssh10
client-library9
tree-traversal9
devops9
automation9
agents9
nextflow8
pre-order8
google-cloud-platform8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
StanfordBioinformatics/loom
Nov 2014 - Dec 2019
A tool for running bioinformatics workflows locally or in the cloud.
Contributions:1099 commits, 106 PRs, 937 pushes in 5 years 1 month
bioinformatics-workflowspythonpipelinelocallywdl
czbiohub-sf/compmicro-ndutils-env
Jan 2025 - Feb 2025
Shared ndutils environment for maintained by the CompMicro platform
Contributions:1 PR, 28 pushes, 6 branches in 21 days
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