Dillon Daudert

269-267-2109 • ​dillongdaudert@gmail.com​ • ​LinkedIn​ • ​GitHub

Software developer in machine learning, data science, and bioinformatics

with experience in business and research development.

Education

Master of Science, Computer Science​​, 01/2017 - 12/2018

Western Michigan University - Kalamazoo, MI

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science​​, 09/2010 - 12/2016

Western Michigan University - Kalamazoo, MI

Core Skills

● Python, Julia, C, Java ● Structural Bioinformatics (BLAST, DSSP,

● Machine Learning (TensorFlow, Keras, MMseqs2)
Scikit-learn) ● Research Development
● Data Analysis and Visualization (Pandas, ● Communication
MatPlotLib, Plotly, Jupyter, SQL)

Experience

Bioinformatics Software Engineer​​, 12/2016 - 8/2017

Zoetis, Inc. – Kalamazoo, MI
Researched and implemented computational methods for peptide classification. Developed software to
accelerate ​novel target discovery through high capacity virtual screening. Collaborated with biomedical
scientists to experimentally validate promising drug candidates.

Security Architect Software Developer​​, 6/2016 - 3/2017

Zoetis, Inc. – Kalamazoo, MI
Developed pipelines to process structured and unstructured data. Prototyped a firewall management system
using Python and SQL. Analyzed and communicated network security risk to project stakeholders. Redesigned
business processes for firewall rule creation and management to improve network security.

Notable Projects

NearestNeighborDescent.jl​​, Ongoing
Efficient k-Nearest Neighbor Graph Construction in Julia
Open-source Julia implementation of ​NearestNeighborDescent​, an algorithm for approximate KNN search.

Master’s Thesis​​, 9/2017 - 9/2018

Exploring the Impact of Pretrained Bidirectional Language Models on Protein Secondary Structure Prediction
Built and trained deep long short-term memory RNN language models in TensorFlow. Studied impact of neural
language models pretrained with UniProt protein sequence data on secondary structure classification.

Academic Research - FANSIE ​6/2017 - 4/2018

Forensic Anthropology and Artificial Neural Systems Interdisciplinary Experiment
Evaluated efficacy of convolutional neural networks to predict age-at-death of voxelized scans of the pubic
symphysis. Findings presented at the 2018 American Association of Physical Anthropologists Conference.