Sangtae Kim
Staff Bioinformatics Scientist
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSangtae Kim is a Director of Bioinformatics in San Diego with 10 years of experience blending AI, proteomics, and software engineering to accelerate translational research. He has held senior technical and executive roles—CTO at Bertis, CEO of NGeneBioAI where he built a Transformer-based peptide identification engine and raised $5M, and leadership positions at Seer and Illumina—bringing both hands-on algorithm development and team scaling experience. His work spans top-down proteomics, proteogenomics, and instrument-control integrations, and he has a deep research pedigree from UC San Diego where he developed widely used peptide identification tools. Known for turning novel mass-spectrometry algorithms into production services, he combines academic rigor with startup execution to move complex proteomics workflows into practical, funded products.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science at Seoul National UniversityUniversity of California, San Diego
Korean, English
Github Skills (24)
database-sequence10
package-management10
conda10
caller10
bioinformatics10
cancer-genomics9
variants9
spectra9
scoring9
bioconda9
sequence9
derived8
pdb6
seq6
sequence-alignment6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
sangtaekim/strelka_liquid
Aug 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:1 push, 2 branches in 1 day
Illumina/strelka
Mar 2017 - Jun 2019
Contributions:6 releases, 13 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 2 months
strelka2sequenceindelscallerrnaseq
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