Curtis Kapsak
Bioinformatics Scientist
Richmond, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCurtis Kapsak is a bioinformatics scientist with nine years of experience building pathogen surveillance capacity at public health labs, currently supporting US and international partners through Theiagen Genomics. He develops, tests, and maintains production-ready bioinformatics workflows for viral and bacterial pathogens and has managed terabytes of Illumina and Nanopore sequence data for outbreak detection and genomic epidemiology. Curtis combines hands-on pipeline engineering (including containerized tools and internal platforms like SneakerNet) with training and capacity-building, routinely teaching laboratorians to analyze their own NGS data. His background at CDC and state public health labs gives him deep domain expertise in enteric and respiratory pathogens, and his master’s research focused on transmissible antibiotic-resistance plasmids, reflecting a longstanding interest in AMR and environmental reservoirs.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Biology, General, Bachelor of Science - BS, Biology, General at James Madison University
Github Skills (125)
virus10
genome-assembly10
genomics10
next-generation-sequencing10
singularity10
ncbi10
genome10
sequencing10
pathogen10
docker10
health10
bioinformatics10
illumina10
genome-annotation10
fastq-files9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
StaPH-B/CDPHE
Sep 2018 - Apr 2019
Various pipelines and scripts used by the CO state public health lab
Contributions:105 commits, 12 PRs, 85 pushes in 7 months
pipelineshealthlabpublic-health
StaPH-B/docker-builds
Sep 2018 - Jan 2023
:package: :whale: Dockerfiles and documentation on tools for public health bioinformatics
Contributions:330 reviews, 1024 commits, 429 PRs in 4 years 5 months
containershealthsingularitydockerpublic-health
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