Amusing comics about an issue I routinely face when writing Wikipedia: overly technical vs overly simplistic
I'm a statistician, bioinformatician, and the chief executive officer of a precision medicine startup company with 5 corporate officers and 1 full-time employee that is incorporated under the name PathoGene. I have three bachelor's degrees in mathematics, finance, and economics from UMD College Park and I studied for 2 years in UNC Chapel Hill's Interdisciplinary Statistics and Operations Research PhD program. In a less formal or non-academic setting, I have also studied and taught bioinformatics and artificial intelligence – specifically, machine learning and natural language processing – with a focus on implementations in Python 3. An example of this on Wikipedia is my data pipeline from the HGNC database to the article space that algorithmically edits the list of human protein-coding genes articles through my bot account: Seppi333Bot.
I've been a Wikipedia editor since May 2013 (NB: my all time editing history statistics are shown here). I was born in Washington D.C., raised in Potomac, Maryland, and currently live in Los Angeles, California.
In addition to the aforementioned subject areas, I have a general interest in and broad knowledge (via autodidactic learning) of molecular biology, cell biology, systems biology, pharmacology, medicine, immunology, physiology, psychology, and neuroscience; I have a rather deep understanding of very specific niches which lie at the intersections of these fields due to having read countless primary research and/or review articles on pertinent topics and usually written extensively about on Wikipedia; specific niches of interest to me include pathophysiology, cognitive neuropsychology, neuroepigenetics, systems neuroscience, neuroimmunology, immunopharmacology, molecular neuropharmacology, multi-omics (particularly genomics, toxicogenomics, metagenomics, metatranscriptomics, pharmacomicrobiomics, and metabolomics), molecular diagnostics, and precision medicine. I typically only edit articles on topics within the scope of one or more of the aforementioned biomedical subject areas, statistics, econometrics, artificial intelligence, and/or bioinformatics.
My primary goal as an editor is to improve the accuracy and overall quality of the health information on Wikipedia; hence, I tend to spend most of my editing time on article content creation and revision (exopedianism), but frequently contribute in other areas of Wikipedia and other Wikimedia content projects (mainly Commons: and Wikidata:). I also spend a fair amount of time wikignoming and regularly donate 2¢ to several WikiProjects – specifically, WT:MED, WT:NEURO, WT:MCB, and WT:PHARM – because I'm very generous with my pocket change. 
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