Michael Payne
Senior Research Fellow at University of Sydney
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolMichael Payne is a Senior Research Fellow and bioinformatician with nine years of experience building tools, databases and web platforms for bacterial genomic surveillance. He led the conception, development and deployment of multilevel genome typing (MGT), a practical nomenclature that distills complex genomic data into simple, standardised strain names used across pathogens and jurisdictions. His work spans outbreak detection algorithms, species-specific classification tools, and production-grade systems built on Unix, Python and Postgres running on HPC infrastructure. Based in Sydney, he pairs deep academic training (PhD in fungal genetics) with hands-on mentoring, having supervised multiple PhD and honours students, and is skilled at turning research concepts into deployable public-health software. An often overlooked strength is his ability to bridge population genomics theory and scalable engineering, ensuring methods are both scientifically robust and operationally usable.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Fungal Genetics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Fungal Genetics at The University of Melbourne
Github Skills (11)
bioinformatics10
microbial-genomics10
conda10
package-management10
bioconda10
genomics9
python-bindings1
machine-learning1
hierarchical-clustering1
hierarchical1
clustering1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
mjohnpayne/bioconda-recipes
Jan 2021 - Apr 2024
Conda recipes for the bioconda channel.
Contributions:46 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 3 months
biocondabioinformaticsrecipesconda
LanLab/STECFinder
Aug 2021 - Apr 2022
Clustering and Serotyping of Shigatoxin producing E. coli (STEC) using genomic cluster specific markers
Contributions:6 releases, 23 commits, 1 PR in 8 months
bioinformaticsgenomicsmicrobial-genomics
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.