John Goertz
Principal Scientist at PyMC Labs
Danbury, Connecticut, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Goertz is a Principal Scientist and founder with 11 years of experience at the intersection of machine learning, bioinformatics, and experimental bioengineering, currently leading CRISPR integration and data-science efforts in industry. He co-founded and served as Chief Scientific Officer of Signatur Biosciences (YC S22), where he invented a hypermultiplexed qPCR molecular design strategy and drove a machine-learning-led workflow that enabled nearly 1,000 experiments by a single technician and raised over $5M. His toolkit spans graph neural networks, Bayesian optimization, PyTorch/PyG, PyMC/Botorch, and a 30,000-line Python codebase tied to a 50M-row PostgreSQL experimental database—skills he used to optimize 42-component molecular kits and tune primer sets at scale. He pairs hands-on wet-lab execution with production-grade MLOps and automation design, having moved a breast cancer prognostic kit from research toward development. Known for stretching limited resources into high-throughput, high-quality experimental data, he thrives building small, distributed teams that translate probabilistic ML into deployable diagnostics.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Physics, Bachelor of Science (BS) Physics at Seattle UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Bioengineering, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Bioengineering at University of Maryland
English, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (92)
probabilistic-programming10
python10
mcmc10
bayesian-inference10
variational-inference10
bayesian10
probabilistic-models10
bayesian-statistics10
statistical-inference10
probabilistic10
modeling10
process-model9
swarm-intelligence9
regression9
particle-swarm-optimization9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
JohnGoertz/PythonUtils
Aug 2019 - Jan 2021
Contributions:29 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 5 months
JohnGoertz/Gumbi-docs
Nov 2021 - Nov 2021
Documentation for Gumbi
Contributions:6 PRs, 31 pushes, 3 branches in 1 day
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