Pavel Katsev
Informatics Consultant Principal
San Diego, California, United States
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Top SchoolPavel Katsev is a Principal Informatics Consultant with 16 years of experience building production-grade bioinformatics and data infrastructure for biotech and academic labs, now focused on version-controlled infrastructure for biomanufacturing. He combines machine learning for computer-aided synthesis planning with deep expertise in NGS pipelines, variant annotation, data integration, and cloud migrations, having led teams through complex transitions at Tempus and improved variant characterization workflows at multiple companies. Pavel’s background spans startups to enterprise, from designing paralog-aware oligo tools and spell-correcting variant pipelines to automating clinical reporting and scalable data movement services. Known for pragmatic leadership and emotional intelligence, he excels at coordinating cross-disciplinary stakeholders to turn research-grade methods into auditable, production systems. Based in San Diego, he blends an MS in Synthetic Biology with hands-on software and engineering leadership to bridge biology, ML, and cloud-native infrastructure.
16 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Biotechnology (Synthetic Biology), Master of Science - MS Biotechnology (Synthetic Biology) at Northwestern UniversityBachelor of Science - BS Industrial Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Industrial Engineering at Milwaukee School of Engineering
English, Russian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (55)
container10
docker10
docker-image10
docker-compose10
golang10
orchestration10
devkit9
command-line-interface9
go9
argparse9
twine9
cli8
python8
command-line-parser8
docker-container8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
p7k/bottle
Jul 2024 - Jan 2025
Contributions:29 pushes, 12 branches in 6 months
mutalyzer/docker-mutalyzer
Feb 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:5 commits, 13 pushes, 2 branches in 2 months
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