Maxwell Silver
Staff Bioinformatics Engineer
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolMaxwell Silver is a Staff Bioinformatics Engineer in San Francisco with over a decade of experience building production-grade systems for genomic data management, analysis, and reporting. He has led cross-functional teams and shipped end-to-end solutions—from LIMS object lifecycles and clinical reporting to Nextflow/Docker pipelines and Sentieon-based tumor-normal workflows—while also architecting robust PostgreSQL/SQLAlchemy databases that tie lab and bioinformatic data together. Comfortable both in hands-on coding (Python, Ruby on Rails, SQL) and technical leadership, he has a track record of automating manual operations and making complex genetic data auditable and accessible via platforms like Tableau and Django. Maxwell’s work blends rigorous computational genetics with pragmatic engineering, and he often steps into the codebase to solve thorny integration problems himself. Trained in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton, he brings domain intuition about biological data alongside scalable software practices.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
A.B. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, A.B. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University
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Github Skills (12)
normal-distribution6
gaussian6
variants6
sfml6
cancer-genomics6
sequencing5
bioinformatics4
parametric3
modeling3
rest2
api2
python2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
msilver727/genomic-coordinate-mapping
Nov 2022 - Nov 2022
For mapping between transcript and genomic coordinates.
Contributions:7 PRs, 9 pushes, 8 branches in 1 day
genomicsbioinformaticsmappingcoordinatesgenomic
GenePeeks/biorest
Jul 2015 - Sep 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 7 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 2 months
apipythonrestclientsrest-python
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