Summary
Adelaide Rhodes is a Senior Bioinformatics Consultant with over 20 years of experience translating biological questions into scalable, cloud-native genomic workflows for academia, startups, and industry. She holds a Ph.D. in Zoology and an MS in Biotechnology/Bioinformatics, and combines deep domain expertise in evolutionary and environmental genomics with practical skills in GKE, Nextflow/WDL/CWL/Snakemake and ML-enabled analyses. Her career spans research faculty roles, leadership at the Broad and NCBI cloud consulting, and hands-on development of GMP-compatible NGS pipelines, giving her a rare mix of regulatory, research, and production experience. Based in Salem, Oregon, she advises on AI/ML opportunities in genomics and builds cost-effective cloud architectures that accelerate discovery. An early entrepreneur who ran a niche aquaculture business from dissertation work, she brings both scientific rigor and product-minded pragmatism to complex bioinformatics problems.
11 years of coding experience