Greg Faust
Retired at none
Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolGreg Faust is a retired technology executive and genomics-focused researcher with over a decade of hands-on experience building clinical-grade genomic analysis pipelines and decades of leadership in software product development. He served as CTO and board member at Variantyx, where he led creation of scalable, high-fidelity NGS analysis and structural-variant detection systems used by clinicians and labs worldwide. Earlier roles at Microsoft and multiple software companies reflect deep expertise in managing large engineering organizations and shipping widely used developer and user-facing tools. Greg holds a PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics and an SM in Computer Science (AI), a blend that underpins his lifelong interest in self-organizing systems and the computational foundations of genomic medicine. Based in Charlottesville, VA, he combines academic rigor with product and operational experience, often emphasizing algorithmic innovation and parallelism to make complex genomic analyses practical.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
SM, Computer Science - AI, SM, Computer Science - AI at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at University of Michigan-DearbornDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics at University of Virginia
Github Skills (12)
duplicates10
sam10
bioinformatics9
synthetic9
mappings9
bioconda7
benchmarking7
conda7
benchmark7
package-management6
probabilistic2
discovery2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
GregoryFaust/yaha
Dec 2014 - Dec 2017
Contributions:2 releases, 8 commits, 2 pushes in 3 years
dna-alignmentsplitdnaalignmentmappings
GregoryFaust/samblaster
Feb 2014 - Jun 2020
samblaster: a tool to mark duplicates and extract discordant and split reads from sam files.
Contributions:5 releases, 84 commits, 3 PRs in 6 years 4 months
sam-filessplitsamblasterduplicatessam
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