Michael Weinstein
Director Of Systems Biology at University of California, Los Angeles
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Weinstein is a Director of Systems Biology and bench-trained computational scientist with 11+ years of experience bridging wet-lab biology and bioinformatics to drive robust experimental design and data analysis. He combines a Ph.D. in Human Genetics and deep hands-on molecular expertise with practical software and security-minded contributions—ranging from NGS workshop instruction at UCLA to developing code for penetration-testing tools on GitHub. Known as an "amphibian" between bench and dry-lab, he builds biologically informed workflows, reagents, and analysis methods that improve reproducibility and throughput. He has led systems biology and laboratory information initiatives at Zymo and Tecan, applying AI/ML where it meaningfully accelerates discovery. Outside core genomics work, he brings a pragmatic security perspective to tooling and automation, improving robustness and cross-platform reliability.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Los AngelesWoodbridge High School
Github Skills (10)
bash10
penetration-testing10
security-scan10
security-txt10
python10
payload10
ssh10
security10
github-ci4
githubaction-workflow4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
hak5/bashbunny-payloads
Nov 2017 - Nov 2017
The Official Bash Bunny Payload Repository
Role in this project:
Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:1 commit, 4 PRs, 2 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Michael contributed to a repository focused on penetration testing and security tools, specifically developing and implementing a credential harvesting payload. Their contributions involved writing Python code to interact with SSH configurations and exploit vulnerabilities, along with the creation of shell scripts for post-exploitation activities and persistence. They also addressed bug fixes and improved code robustness by incorporating error handling and addressing cross-platform compatibility issues.
payloadlinuxbunnybashbadusb
Zymo-Research/VirSieveGATK
Apr 2021 - Dec 2024
GATK functionality for the VirSieve Pipeline by Zymo Research
Contributions:8 PRs, 7 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 8 months
gatkpipeline
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