Sam Westreich
Program Director at DNAnexus
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSam Westreich is a Program Director and bioinformatician with 11 years of experience building and managing cloud-based bioinformatics pipelines for metagenomics and metatranscriptomics, blending hands-on Unix/R/Python programming with senior program management at DNAnexus. He earned a PhD in Integrative Genetics and Genomics from UC Davis where he developed end-to-end metatranscriptome analysis pipelines for gut microbiome research, and has translated that research rigor into enterprise-scale projects like precisionFDA and Mosaic. Comfortable bridging research and product delivery, Sam plans, scopes, and executes complex life-science tool implementations using Agile practices while managing budgets and cross-functional teams. He’s launched a DNA-testing startup and worked with IBM on food safety pipelines, underscoring an entrepreneurial bent and practical focus on deploying genomics solutions. Based in Minneapolis, he combines deep domain expertise in microbial community analysis with a pragmatic track record of shipping reproducible, cloud-native bioinformatics.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Integrative Genetics and Genomics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Integrative Genetics and Genomics at University of California, DavisBachelor of Science (B.S.) Genetics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Genetics at University of Minnesota
Spanish, English
Github Skills (57)
manhattan10
microbiome10
bioinformatics10
snakemake9
databases9
pipeline9
plot8
virtual-reality6
bam4
genome4
sequencing4
python4
wake-on-lan4
genomics4
genome-annotation4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
transcript/SAMSA
Mar 2016 - Dec 2019
Contributions:1 release, 73 commits, 37 pushes in 3 years 9 months
transcript/subsystems
Jan 2017 - May 2018
Contributions:13 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
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