Phillip Seitzer
Staff Software Engineer at Calico Life Sciences
California, United States
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Top SchoolPhillip Seitzer is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building bioinformatics software focusing on mass spectrometry (MS/MS) data analysis and comparative genomics for bacterial and archaeal genomes. At Calico Life Sciences he progressed from Data Scientist to Principal Data Scientist and now Staff Software Engineer, creating both in-house and open-source tools for lipidomics, metabolomics, and proteomics. He combines a Ph.D. in Bioengineering with hands-on skills across C++, Java, R, Python, SQL, MATLAB, and shell scripting to translate complex analytical methods into production-ready software. Previously at Proteome Software he designed commercial bioinformatics solutions for MS applications, giving him product-oriented rigor alongside research collaboration. Based in California, he pairs deep domain knowledge with a pragmatic engineering approach and a penchant for strategy games like chess and Scrabble, reflecting a methodical, puzzle-oriented mindset. Colleagues know him for turning nuanced experimental requirements into reproducible, publishable software and analyses.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering at University of California, DavisBachelor’s Degree Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering at Case Western Reserve University
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (59)
visual-analytics10
mass-spectrometry10
java10
flow-based-programming10
maven10
mass9
r-package9
visualization9
tidymodels9
rcpp8
rapid8
tsne8
tidy8
tidyverse8
bioinformatics8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
calico/CalicoLipidLibrary
Jul 2022 - Mar 2025
In silico Lipid fragmentation patterns
Contributions:7 reviews, 2 PRs, 5 pushes in 2 years 7 months
fragmentationpythonin-silicolipidpatterns
eugenemel/maven_core
Jun 2019 - Dec 2022
MAVEN: Core Libraries
Contributions:2 reviews, 1463 commits, 5 PRs in 3 years 7 months
javacore-librariesmavenmass-spectrometrymetabolomics
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