Christopher Bennett
Software Quality Engineer III at Ambry Genetics
Fort Collins, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Bennett is a Software Quality Engineer III and bioinformatics specialist with nine years of experience bridging molecular biology and software engineering to deliver validated, regulatory-compliant tools for genomics. With a PhD in Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology and a background building genotyping and assembly tools like extensions to HISAT-genotype, he designs algorithms and QA systems that turn sequencing data into reliable, clinically actionable results. At Ambry Genetics he leads software validation and quality management for life‑science products, combining hands‑on development with process and regulatory rigor. His career spans academic research, startup consulting, and commercial QC system development, giving him a rare mix of wet‑lab insight and production software discipline. Notably, he has repeatedly transformed research code into maintainable infrastructure and automated QC pipelines that accelerate product readiness.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Biology and Genetics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Biology and Genetics at Texas A&M UniversityPhD Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology, PhD Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology at University of Colorado Boulder
English
Github Skills (42)
hierarchical10
fm-index10
graph9
bedtools7
interval-arithmetic7
genome7
intellisense6
classifier6
probabilistic5
probabilistic-models5
vscode5
specification5
fastq5
vscode-extension5
dsl5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
DaehwanKimLab/hisat-genotype
Mar 2019 - Aug 2021
Contributions:79 commits, 3 PRs, 42 pushes in 2 years 5 months
DaehwanKimLab/seqwho
Mar 2021 - Jan 2022
SeqWho - A reliable and rapid FASTQ(A) file classifier
Contributions:19 commits, 15 pushes, 3 branches in 10 months
nlpclassifiermachine-learningfastqreliable
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