Mike Macpherson
Co-Founder And CTO at Devano AI
Davis, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMike Macpherson is a Co-Founder and CTO with 12 years of experience building AI-driven products for life sciences and climate tech, blending deep computational biology expertise with pragmatic ML engineering. A Stanford PhD in Evolutionary Genetics and dual BS degrees in Computational & Applied Mathematics and Biochemistry underpin his track record translating large genomic and environmental datasets into production product features and patents. He led full-stack data science at 23andMe (author on 20+ company patents), built ML pipelines and teams at nZero, and now designs agentic AI workflows solving real data problems for life science companies at Devano AI. Known for bridging research and product, he excels at turning complex statistical ideas into reliable, shipped systems and has a history of creating core ancestry and health analysis infrastructure that scaled to millions of users.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computational and Applied Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computational and Applied Mathematics at University of WashingtonPhD, Evolutionary Genetics, PhD, Evolutionary Genetics at Stanford University
Github Skills (77)
gcp10
prediction10
r-package10
aws10
r9
espn9
emacs9
ai9
cli9
science9
azure9
python9
model-management9
vim9
bayesian-inference9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
mmacpherson/tenforty
Feb 2020 - Jul 2021
Python library to compute US federal taxes, and state taxes for some states.
Contributions:1 release, 1 review, 11 commits in 1 year 5 months
python-librarypythoncensusfederalcompute
mmacpherson/prezto
Jun 2015 - Dec 2018
Contributions:1 PR, 10 pushes in 3 years 6 months
shellconfiguration-frameworkzsh-pluginzsh
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