Matthew Workentine
Bioinformatics Technical Lead Manager
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolMatthew Workentine is a Bioinformatics Technical Lead Manager with 11 years of experience blending microbial biochemistry and computational biology to deliver production-ready sequencing analysis and data infrastructure. He has moved between academia and industry—supporting veterinary research at the University of Calgary, leading computational biology at Willow Biosciences, consulting on sequencing pipelines, and now guiding bioinformatics at Plasmidsaurus—bringing both hands-on analysis and team leadership. His background in wet-lab microbiology and a PhD in microbial biochemistry gives him an uncommon ability to translate experimental needs into robust statistical and software solutions. Based in San Jose, he focuses on scalable computational infrastructure for high-throughput sequencing and pathogen profiling, often stepping into roles that require both technical design and operational delivery. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic, reproducible pipelines that bridge research questions and deployable engineering.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Microbial Biochemistry, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Microbial Biochemistry at University of Calgary
English
Github Skills (48)
package-management10
conda10
forge10
bioinformatics10
bioconda10
cli10
venn-diagram9
bioconductor9
upsetr9
zsh9
shell9
microbiome8
prezto8
taxonomy7
lex7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ucvm/markerDB
Nov 2018 - Jun 2019
Contributions:1 release, 46 commits, 1 tag in 6 months
ucvm/nemabiome
Dec 2017 - Sep 2019
Nemabiome website
Contributions:2 PRs, 24 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 8 months
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