Emmanuel San
Bioinformatician II
Durham, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolJames San is a seasoned bioinformatician and technology leader with a decade of experience spanning research, data management, and web-scale software development. Based in South Africa, he currently serves as Bioinformatician II at The Duke Human Vaccine Institute, leveraging phylodynamics and transmission analysis to inform infectious disease research, while also applying full-stack web development skills as CTO at Avant Garde Solutions since 2011. His work blends PHP/MySQL web systems, database design (MS SQL Server, MS Access), and data science in Python, R, and STATA, with a track record of designing scalable data infrastructures for health research in Africa. He holds a PhD in Virology from UKZN and an MSc in Data Communications and Software Engineering from Makerere University, reflecting a rare combination of wet-lab and software engineering expertise. He has led technical teams, mentored data managers, and contributed to community-driven localization and open science initiatives across Uganda and Africa. A practical, results-oriented thinker who translates complex scientific needs into robust, maintainable software and data workflows that accelerate insights in epidemiology and public health.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
University of KwaZulu-Natal
Swahili, japadhola, Bantu, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (158)
gitlab10
vue10
golang9
rnaseq9
testing9
virus9
genomics-visualization9
bioconductor9
gitea9
devops9
gwas9
cicd9
bitbucket9
sequencing9
go9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
CERI-KRISP/africa-covid19-genomics
Feb 2021 - Sep 2022
Contributions:1 release, 6 commits, 3 pushes in 1 year 6 months
jsan4christ/Sars-Cov2-Refs
Jul 2020 - Aug 2023
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 1 month
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