Kenny Speer
Vice President Bioinformatics Software Engineering
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolKenny Speer is a hands-on technical leader with 11+ years driving bioinformatics software and systems engineering in regulated clinical environments, now serving as Vice President at Guardant Health. He builds and scales cross-functional teams (SRE, Clinical Software, BI, HPC) and architects hybrid HPC/cloud infrastructure supporting petabytes of clinical and R&D data while ensuring compliance with FDA and ISO standards. Kenny has led development of a custom LIMS, automated sequencing pipelines, and CI/CD/DevOps practices that enabled the industry’s first FDA-cleared liquid biopsy IVD with no regulatory inspection deficiencies. A former kernel and storage engineer, he combines deep systems-level expertise with practical product delivery and site reliability at scale. Based in San Francisco, he is also an active angel investor in early-stage life sciences, signaling a knack for spotting translational opportunities beyond engineering.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Los Medanos CollegeCleveland Institute of ElectronicsEmbry-Riddle Aeronautical UniversityUniversity of California Santa Cruz
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (7)
surface9
ubuntu8
linux6
docker-desktop4
docker2
desktop2
macos2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
neoreeps/home-assistant
Feb 2020 - Dec 2024
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 11 months
neoreeps/reeps-k8s
Feb 2019 - May 2022
raspberry pi3b kubernetes cluster
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 3 months
k3draspberry-piraspberrydockerresource-management
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