John Didion

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DISC Type : i

Associate Director, Research Bioinformatics, Women's and Organ Health at Natera

Livermore, California, United States

Overview

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.

Personality Overview

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.


Topics They Care 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.
Building Eng Teams
His stated professional focus is helping organizations build stellar products and run high-functioning engineering and data science teams.

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Work History

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

Education

2008 - 2014
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) from UNC School of Medicine
1996 - 2001
BS from Northwestern University

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Insights For Selling To John

During A Call Or A Meeting

DO's

  • Give them the opportunity to lead the conversation where possible
  • Invite them for a lunch or a drink/coffee
  • Ask them how their day is going or exchange some other pleasantries

DONT's

  • Don’t be excessively objective, be like a storyteller with them
  • Avoid overloading them with too much information
  • Don’t push them for a direct ‘no’, take lack of ‘yes’ as ‘no’ after some time

When Cold Calling

When Writing An Email

While Negotiating & Closing

    The secret to closing fast with John is

  • Relationships and rapport matter to them, but so does the value of the product.
  • Will you ever get a clear answer from John

  • They are unlikely to say no directly.

Insights For Deal Planning

    How fast (or slow) will John move?

  • They are not very fast decision makers, even while they continue to stay engaged.
  • Can John take some risk or not?

  • If it seems really necessary, they can take small risks.

You And John

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