Sean Mckenzie
Director, Applications Bioinformatics
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSean Mckenzie is a Director of Applications Bioinformatics at Oxford Nanopore Technologies with a decade of experience applying long-read sequencing to clinical and basic genomic science. He progressed through roles from bioinformatician to associate director and now leads application-focused teams translating nanopore technology into real-world genomic and translational workflows. Trained as a PhD biologist with postdoctoral and academic teaching experience, he combines deep comparative genomics and transcriptomics expertise with practical core-lab bioinformatics across proteomics, RNA-seq, and metagenomics. Based in San Diego, he is adept at bridging research and product, turning complex sequencing data into actionable insights for clinical and research customers. An underappreciated strength is his background in hands-on curriculum development and lab management, which informs his collaborative, user-focused approach to tool development and team mentoring.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Biology, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Biology at The Rockefeller UniversityBachelor of Science (BS), Ecology and Biodiversity, Bachelor of Science (BS), Ecology and Biodiversity at The University of the South
Spanish
Github Skills (25)
bioinformatics7
genomics7
sequence-alignment6
structural-variation6
pairwise6
rna-seq5
assembler4
variants3
python2
pytorch2
metagenomics2
margin2
pepper2
sequencing2
libtorch2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
biorover/MAGOT
Jan 2017 - Jun 2018
Contributions:1 release, 4 PRs, 130 pushes in 1 year 6 months
python-librarybioinformaticspythongenomics
biorover/And-now-for-something-completely-different
Jul 2017 - Nov 2020
Contributions:55 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 4 months
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