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John Didion

Enthusiast · DISC type i
Associate Director, Research Bioinformatics, Women's and Organ Health at Natera
📍 Livermore, California, United States

John Didion is the Associate Director of Bioinformatics at Natera, specializing in computational biology, Next Generation Sequencing, and machine learning. With over 25 years of software engineering experience, he focuses on building products and leading high-functioning engineering and data science teams. He holds a Ph. D. from the UNC School of Medicine.

Outside of his formal roles, John is a dedicated contributor to the open-source community, developing and maintaining several widely-used bioinformatics tools. He actively shares his expertise in software languages like Rust through his personal blog, creating resources for other programmers and computational biologists.

While at the NIH, John led an innovation project to create an electronic lab notebook that instantly digitized handwritten notes using a smart pen.

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Experience
5 Years
Current Role
Associate Director, Research Bioinformatics, Women's and Organ Health
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
Livermore, California, United States
Personality Overview

How John shows up

Consensus Focused
Non-Confrontational
Amiable & Agreeable

They are more about building relationships than just cutting deals. Unlike D or C types, they are convinced more by stories and testimonials. They tend to be agreeable by nature, so take their promises with a pinch of salt.


Priorities

Topics John cares about

Next-Gen Diagnostics
His current role at Natera involves building new methods and pipelines for the next generation of diagnostics in Women's and Organ Health.
Scientific Observability
At his recent role with Tracer, he focused on building tools to solve debugging and performance optimization challenges in scientific computing.
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Career

Work history

10-2025
Associate Director, Research Bioinformatics, Women's and Organ Health
Natera
6-2025 - 8-2025
VP of Product Engineering
Tracer
3-2025 - 6-2025
Senior Strategic Advisor
Tracer
3-2024 - 4-2025
Director of Bioinformatics Engineering
Fulcrum Genomics LLC
9-2023 - 3-2024
Principal Bioinformatics Engineer
Fulcrum Genomics LLC
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Media appearances

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Education
2008 - 2014
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
UNC School of Medicine
1996 - 2001
BS
Northwestern University
Social presence
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Behavioral profile

DISC profile (public)

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Influence (I)

Influence (I) reflects the degree to which a person prefers to work by influencing or persuading others. Those scoring high tend to be people oriented, motivated by social recognition and building relationships.

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