Lee Bergstrand
Entrepreneur at Metagenom Bio Inc
Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolLee Bergstrand is a multidisciplinary bioinformatics engineer and entrepreneur with 12 years of experience building cloud platforms and custom software that translate microbiology research into production-ready life science products. Trained in computing science and microbiology with an MS in bioinformatics from the University of Waterloo, he uniquely combines biochemical pathway analysis, microbial ecology, data engineering, and full-stack development. As founder and technical lead at Amplytica and later bioinformatics director roles, he has taken projects from lab-focused tools to commercial cloud services while also driving product strategy and business development. Comfortable switching between research labs and startup environments, Lee has a proven track record of architecting systems that reveal pathway distributions across bacterial taxa — a practical bridge between computational rigor and biological insight.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computing Science Degree (BCS) Database and Information Systems, Bachelor of Computing Science Degree (BCS) Database and Information Systems at Thompson Rivers UniversityMaster of Science - MS Bioinformatics, Master of Science - MS Bioinformatics at University of Waterloo
English, French
Github Skills (105)
snakemake10
python10
genomes10
genomics10
javascript10
bokeh10
ncbi10
bidirectional10
ipywidgets10
pyodide10
filtering10
altair10
genome10
holoviews10
jupyter10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
LeeBergstrand/HMMER-DB
May 2014 - Jul 2015
Contributions:148 commits, 4 PRs, 8 pushes in 1 year 2 months
storingbioinformaticshidden-markov-modelssearchinghmmer
MetAnnotate/MetAnnotate
Jul 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:148 commits, 80 PRs, 126 pushes in 7 months
profilingweb-applicationtaxonomic-profilingbioinformaticsshotgun
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