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Jared Hendrickson

Bioinformatician

Summary

Constantly learning, constantly refining biotech employee from startup to non-profit looking for a different type of opportunity

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience
3
3
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Bioinformatics Engineer

Sage Bionetworks
05.2022 - 04.2024
  • Completed RNA-seq pipeline in Nextflow, along with differential expression analysis to support MODEL-AD initiative of transgenic mouse models to better represent Alzheimer's Disease in humans with custom reference genome design to account for CRISPR/Cas9 editing. Rescued four R shiny apps from server crash before my arrival, including later maintenance and development of another R shiny app to pull from API for non-developers (followed agile like development with formal testing such as testthat R package)

Principal Research Associate, Bioinformatician

Vedanta Biosciences
03.2022 - 04.2022
  • Performed various analyses in R to assess quality aspects of custom barcodes from customized Nextflow Nanoseq pipeline that I created

Senior Research Associate, Bioinformatician

Vedanta Biosciences
03.2019 - 03.2022
  • Under guidance of statistical biophysicist to implement linear mixed modeling and other statistical approaches, heavily employing R markdown

Contract Research Associate, Bioinformatician

Vedanta Biosciences
06.2018 - 02.2019
  • Developed R Shiny app to connect to company curated microbial culture collection SQL database for internal queries by non-programming scientists and to showcase to investors

Co-op for Drug Discovery

Translate Bio
01.2018 - 06.2018
  • Implemented machine learning approach in Python to classify microscope slide sub-images as retina and not retina using convolutional neural networks

Biomedical Informatics Research Intern

Vanderbilt University Medical Center
06.2017 - 08.2017
  • Analyzed 3,165 homelessness cases along with matched controls through PheWAS framework in R from electronic health records

Education

Master of Science - Bioinformatics

Northeastern University
Boston, MA
09.2016 - 08.2018

Master of Professional Studies - Mycology Certificate (Evenings, in Progress 2025)

The Evergreen State College
Olympia, WA
09.2024 - 12.2025

Skills

R (Tidyverse, Shiny, R Markdown, Devtools, testthat)

Python for Biology, Biopython

Machine Learning (Random Forest, Deep Learning)

Biostatistics

Cloud Computing: AWS EC2, familiarity with AWS Batch

Nextflow, Snakemake, Shell

Docker, Singularity familiarity

Oxford Nanopore, Illumina, Pacbio sequencing

Git (Github, Gitlab), Codespaces, VS code

Timeline

Master of Professional Studies - Mycology Certificate (Evenings, in Progress 2025)

The Evergreen State College
09.2024 - 12.2025

Bioinformatics Engineer

Sage Bionetworks
05.2022 - 04.2024

Principal Research Associate, Bioinformatician

Vedanta Biosciences
03.2022 - 04.2022

Senior Research Associate, Bioinformatician

Vedanta Biosciences
03.2019 - 03.2022

Contract Research Associate, Bioinformatician

Vedanta Biosciences
06.2018 - 02.2019

Co-op for Drug Discovery

Translate Bio
01.2018 - 06.2018

Biomedical Informatics Research Intern

Vanderbilt University Medical Center
06.2017 - 08.2017

Master of Science - Bioinformatics

Northeastern University
09.2016 - 08.2018
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