Michael Silverstein
Bioinformatics Engineer
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolMichael Silverstein is a bioinformatics engineer with nine years of hands-on experience across the full experimental lifecycle—from study design and field sampling to sequencing, pipeline development, simulation, and interpretation. He holds a PhD in Bioinformatics from Boston University and has applied his computational microbial ecology expertise to soil microbiome engineering for climate mitigation and to vaccine development aimed at reducing cattle methane emissions. Experienced in both academic and industry settings (Broad Institute, Finch Therapeutics, ArkeaBio™), he bridges wet-lab understanding with production-ready computational infrastructure. Based in Cambridge, MA, he combines rigorous research training with practical data science internships and fellowship experience, making him adept at translating complex biological questions into scalable analysis and engineering solutions. An active problem-solver, he favors projects where microbial systems can be engineered to address planetary- and human-health challenges.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Biomedical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Biomedical Engineering at University of RochesterDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Bioinformatics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Bioinformatics at Boston University
Stackoverflow
1,773reputation
1.5mreached
36answers
2questions
Github Skills (72)
python10
data-manipulation10
genomics10
dataframes10
pandas10
data-science10
data-analysis10
manipulation10
bioinformatics10
data-structures10
frame10
cvs9
statistics9
data-visualization9
computational-biology9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
michaelsilverstein/Pandas-and-Plotting
Feb 2019 - Aug 2021
Contributions:22 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
michaelsilverstein/Loans
Apr 2020 - Apr 2020
Quickly analyze the the total cost of paying off one or multiple loans
Contributions:42 commits, 4 PRs, 37 pushes in 7 days
totalpythonfinanceloansanalyze
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.