# Adam Tracy

> Software Engineer at Ansa Bio

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/adamtracy

I have over 25 years experience in developing software solutions to  bioinformatics data problems.  Much of that time spent writing high performance, real-time search software for large datasets in multi-tiered environments.

Specialties: MySQL, Postgres,  Solr/ElasticSearch, Python, Java, unix shell scripting, bioinformatics pipelines, web applications (Flask/Jetty/), Apache/nginx

## Work Experience
### Senior Staff Software Engineer, Informatics @ Ansa Biotechnologies, Inc.
Jan 2024 – Present | Emeryville, California, United States
Building internal tools and software infrastructure for the production laboratory.

### Consultant @ Antformatics LLC (Owner)
Jan 2024 – Present
Providing software consulting services, building internal tools for production laboratory workflows

### Software Engineer @ Invitae
Jan 2017 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco, California
Production Bioinformatics

### Staff Software Engineer @ Affymetrix
Jan 2000 – Jan 2017
Developed patented insilico annotation pipelines of all catalog probe arrays using a compute cluster, backed by an SQL job queue.   Created a web based job management system for issuing the annotation processes, reviewing their status and collecting performance statistics for QA. 

Built multiple search, analysis, and download tools for these annotation results via corporate web portal, such as:  A query interface for a SQL back end allowing up to10,000 term searches against denormalized MySQL and Sphinx indexes in real time.
A novel sequence alignment tool matching customer supplied gene sequences of interest to 20M+ 25mer catalog probes in real time.  A patented SVG plug-in based annotation browser enabling customers to look for statistically significant results within the context of the Gene Ontology Consortium data hierarchy. 

Built  a secure, web based microarray design application (~10^6 probes) enabling customers to submit large, complex queries to affymetrix.com for batch processing on our servers.   Results are then returned to the customer for review on the web, where they can initiate a design order.

### Software engineer @ Neomorphic
Jan 2000 – Jan 2000
Bioinformatics relational data storage, mostly.  Loading tools implemented primarily in  JAVA with extensive use of code generators to facilitate c.r.u.d. operations.

### Software Engineer @ Genomica Corporation
Jan 1996 – Jan 1999
Evolved Cold Spring Harbor prototype from academic setting to commercial product, leading to successful IPO for company.

### Scientific Programmer @ Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Jan 1994 – Jan 1996
Worked on a 6 developer team creating an object oriented database and client application for managing bioinformatics data.


## Education
### bs in software engineering
The Evergreen State College


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/adam-tracy-5b44b22

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Last updated: 2026-04-01