Nishanth Merwin
Software Consultant at Benchling
Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolNishanth Merwin is a software consultant and founding engineer with 11 years of experience building data-driven software and machine learning solutions for chemical and biological domains. He has led chemoinformatics and data science teams to translate complex experimental and clinical data into actionable insights for drug discovery and sample/biomarker management. At startups and scaleups (ReSync Bio, BioSymetrics, QuartzBio) he combined hands-on engineering, product thinking, and domain expertise to deliver scalable SaaS platforms used in modern biotech R&D. Now at Benchling, he focuses on lowering barriers to ML/AI adoption for life-science teams after his startup was acquired. Trained as a biochemist with graduate work automating natural product discovery pipelines, he blends wet-lab understanding with production-grade software practices—often automating workflows that connect sequencing, mass spec, and chemical data. Based in Ontario, Canada, he’s as comfortable prototyping novel ML models as shipping robust data platforms for regulated environments.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Biochemistry, Master’s Degree Biochemistry at McMaster UniversityBioinformatics, Bioinformatics at Seneca Polytechnic
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (37)
python-bindings9
image-recognition6
plot6
rounding6
label6
r6
genomes5
jsonresume5
javascript4
json4
molecule4
cli4
deep-learning3
genome-assembly3
cheminformatics3
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
nishanthmerwin/deltahacks4_arsafety
Jan 2018 - Oct 2019
Building an image recognition app for workplace safety.
Contributions:3 commits, 13 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 year 9 months
image-recognition
magarveylab/NLPPrecursor
Jan 2020 - Jul 2024
NLPPrecursor is a tool to identify RiPP precursor peptide ORFs and subsequently cleave them using deep learning.
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 9 comments in 4 years 6 months
deep-learning
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