Matthew Kendzior
Senior Software Engineer at Mayo Clinic
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Kendzior is a senior software engineer in Chicago with 10 years of experience applying modern software and cloud technologies to healthcare and scientific computing. At Mayo Clinic he focuses on delivering reliable, production-grade systems informed by prior work porting and automating HPC workflows to Google Cloud while maintaining scientific software stacks. His background in bioinformatics and a MS from UIUC underpins practical expertise in NGS workflows, variant detection, and performance benchmarking for bioinformatics tools. Matthew has blended research and engineering roles—mentoring students, presenting at conferences, and translating clinical genomics analyses into queryable databases—so he brings both domain knowledge and reproducible engineering practices. He’s comfortable across Bash, workflow languages like WDL/Nextflow/Swift-T, and cloud/HPC integration, which helps bridge research prototypes to scalable clinical applications. An often-overlooked strength is his track record of shipping scheduled, Agile releases for complex, multi-environment scientific projects, ensuring reproducibility and operational readiness.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Crop Science: Plant Biotechnology and Molecular Biology, Bachelor of Science, Crop Science: Plant Biotechnology and Molecular Biology at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English, Spanish
Github Skills (36)
illumina8
mindmap8
sequence8
sequencing8
adapter8
overlap8
fastq8
mermaid8
duplication8
markdown7
javascript7
bioinformatics7
filter7
typescript7
documentation7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mken418/structural_variant_annotation_workflow
Jul 2020 - Dec 2020
Contributions:3 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
mken418/recip_overlap
Oct 2018 - May 2020
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch, 2 issues in 1 year 7 months
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