Cameron Martino
Founder & CEO at Leaven Foods
Solana Beach, California, United States
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Top SchoolCameron Martino is a founder and PhD-trained bioengineer with nine years of experience translating microbiome science into products and companies. As Founder & CEO of Leaven Foods and former PhD student in the Rob Knight Lab at UC San Diego, he blends deep bioinformatics expertise with hands-on entrepreneurial leadership in microbial applications for food and animal health. He has held scientific and data roles at Native Microbials, scaling microbial community analytics into actionable solutions, and earlier experience building engineering devices informs his cross-disciplinary approach. Based in Solana Beach, CA, Cameron is equally comfortable in the lab and the boardroom, turning complex sequencing and community-data insights into commercial outcomes. An uncommon strength is his ability to move from raw microbiome data to product-ready strategies, bridging academia, startup operations, and applied engineering.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Bioengineering: BioSystems, Bachelor's Degree, Bioengineering: BioSystems at University of California, San DiegoDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Bioengineering: Bioinformatics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Bioengineering: Bioinformatics at University of California San DiegoAssociate's Degree, Engineering Physics/Applied Physics, Associate's Degree, Engineering Physics/Applied Physics at West Valley College
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Github Skills (54)
sparse10
rclr10
pca10
conda10
forge10
petsc10
bids10
microbiome10
qiime10
factorization10
toolbox9
conda-forge9
ecology9
datasets9
meta-analysis9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
knightlab-analyses/seeding-study
Feb 2020 - Jun 2021
Restoration of the microbiome trajectory by vaginal seeding of C-section born infants
Contributions:2 reviews, 7 PRs, 14 pushes in 1 year 4 months
microbiomeseedingrestorationtrajectory
biocore/DEICODE
Nov 2016 - Aug 2022
Robust Aitchison PCA from sparse count data
Contributions:5 releases, 472 commits, 37 PRs in 5 years 10 months
sparsecount-datapetscpcabids
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