Doug Wendel
Vice President Of Software And Computational Biology
Longmont, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolDoug Wendel is a seasoned software and computational biology executive with 16 years of experience building cloud-native systems for genomics, oncology, and public health analytics. He has scaled teams and platforms from lab-scale research to regulated, production-grade SaaS—helping ArcherDX grow to a $1.4B acquisition, and later leading Biobot’s rapid 10x technical expansion that landed it on Time’s 100 Most Influential Companies. A hands-on engineer turned VP/CTO, Doug combines deep cloud, CI/CD, and regulatory compliance expertise (HIPAA, GDPR, FDA/21CFR11, ISO) with a history of contributing to influential open-source bioinformatics projects like QIIME. Based in Longmont, CO, he favors pragmatic, security-first architectures and a shift-left approach that automates testing and speeds delivery while keeping human factors and usability front and center.
16 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng Computer Science, Master of Engineering - MEng Computer Science at University of Colorado Boulder
German
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Github Skills (9)
bioinformatics10
microbiome10
analyse10
python10
scripting10
fileio9
file-access9
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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