Doug Wendel
Boulder, Colorado, United States
Summary
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SeniorDoug Wendel is a seasoned software and cloud leader at the intersection of biology and technology, currently VP of Software and Computational Biology at Watchmaker Genomics in Longmont, Colorado. With 15+ years spanning genomics, oncology, and wastewater analytics, he builds scalable platforms and leads cross-functional teams from IC to executive roles. As CTO at Biobot Analytics, he scaled software and data science teams tenfold in under two years and helped propel Biobot to Time's 100 Most Influential Companies list in 2022, while implementing mature Agile processes and SaaS product development. At Invitae and ArcherDX, he led cloud operations and software programs, driving CI/CD, cybersecurity, and regulatory compliance (HIPAA, GDPR, FDA, ISO standards) and enabling ML-driven genomic diagnostics. He also contributes to open-source bioinformatics, notably as a back-end developer on QIIME 1, delivering Python tooling for sequence filtering and OTU analysis. He has pursued an MEng in Computer Science at CU Boulder, reflecting ongoing commitment to advanced engineering and leadership.
16 years of coding experience
Github Skills (10)
bioinformatics10
microbiome10
analyse10
python10
scripting10
fileio9
file-access9
file-io9
file-handling9
file-processing9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
biocore/qiime
Feb 2010 - Jul 2010
Official QIIME 1 software repository. QIIME 2 (https://qiime2.org) has succeeded QIIME 1 as of January 2018.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:Doug primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of QIIME 1, focusing on creating and refactoring Python scripts. They added a new wrapper for filtering alignments, factored out existing code into reusable scripts, and added a wrapper for OTU category significance analysis. The user also demonstrated an understanding of the project's structure by refactoring code and cleaning up imports, as well as creating a wrapper for a tool to generate library ID lists.
qiimeanalysismicrobiomeqiime2
douginator2000/cd
Jun 2018 - Jun 2018
Continuous Deployment Example
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
continuous-deploymentdevopsdeploymentcontinuousdocker
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