# Andrew Walker

> Senior Software Engineer at Othram

Location: Houston, Texas, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/andrewwalker

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Othram Inc.
Jan 2024 – Present | The Woodlands, Texas, United States

### Software Engineer II @ Illumina
Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 | San Diego, California, United States
Worked with clinical geneticists to create bioinformatics pipelines in AWS for analyzing cardiovascular disease
risk and drug response (PGx).
• Used industry standard tools such as samtools, bcftools etc. to debug issues and support clinical lab operations
which included variant and gene curation and the diagnosis of rare and undiagnosed genetic diseases.
• Developed a visualization platform for the lab using Typescript and Rust centered around the novel
visualization of whole genome data.
• Developed a full stack application for the tracking, management, and analysis of genomic data using
Typescript, NextJS and Postgresql.

### Full Stack Software Engineer @ Gene by Gene
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Houston, Texas Area
- Designed and implemented a distributed application written in Python and c++ for matching genomic data to a database of more than 1 million samples.
- Built scalable backend processes/pipelines using Postgresql and Python for managing large volumes of genetic data coming from the lab.
- Worked with R&D to take bioinformatics machine learning projects from experimental prototypes to production pipelines.
- Oversaw the integration of Nomad for managing application deployment across different hosts and data centers.

### Software Test Automation Engineer @ National Oilwell Varco
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Houston, Texas Area

### Student Worker @ University of Houston STEM Center
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Houston, Texas Area
Assisted in managing scoring systems and automating paperwork for the Science and Engineering Fair Houston 2018.

### Software Developer @ IBM
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Houston, Texas Area
Completed a Co-op while attending school where I worked with mentors within IBM to learn the skills and best practices for developing software. While at IBM, I developed testing infrastructure for IBM's line of flash based memory systems and worked with engineers to automate the testing of new features. I also developed a tool utilized internally for placing development systems into JBOF mode for testing purposes.


## Education
### Specialized Certificate in Bioinformatics
UC San Diego Extended Studies
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023

### Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc in Computer Science
University of Houston
Jan 2014 – Jan 2018


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/andrew-walker-079174a9

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Last updated: 2026-03-22