Summary
Liudmila Mainzer is a CEO and computational biology veteran with 11+ years building high-performance bioinformatics workflows and optimizing software for large-scale genomics and multiomics analyses. She founded Well Oiled Machine to bring multidisciplinary biological computing, modeling, and production-grade automation to under-resourced biotech R&D teams, cutting time and cost to production. Previously she led advanced research computing at the University of Wyoming and ran genomics programs at NCSA, where she retooled pipelines for supercomputers and diagnosed real-world performance bottlenecks across widely used tools. Trained as a PhD biophysicist, she blends deep domain knowledge in genomics with systems-level engineering, from hardware sizing to robust workflow deployment. An often-overlooked strength is her track record liaising between academia, national labs and industry—helping translate early research into scalable, auditable computational solutions.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Bachelor, Physics, Summa Cum Laude, Bachelor, Physics, Summa Cum Laude at Belaruski Dziarzhauny Universitet
English, Russian, German