Sheldon Mckay
Associate Director, Bioinformatics
Village of Tarrytown, New York, United States
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Top SchoolSheldon Mckay is an Associate Director of Bioinformatics with over two decades of hands-on experience applying omics, computational biology and data science to drug discovery and research operations. At Regeneron he leads cross-functional data science teams that build automated analysis pipelines, bespoke databases and APIs for CRISPR design, antibody discovery, RNAi modeling and pathogen surveillance, and he regularly teaches enterprise-wide bioinformatics workshops. Trained as an evolutionary geneticist (PhD) and grounded in genome informatics from institutions like Cold Spring Harbor and UBC, he blends deep domain expertise in phylogenetics and comparative genomics with practical engineering in R, Python and JavaScript. Notably, his group has translated evolutionary and mass-spectrometry signals into novel antibody identification and predictive biophysical models, reflecting a knack for turning complex biological data into actionable R&D outcomes.
22 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Genetics, Master's degree Genetics at The University of British ColumbiaDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Evolutionary Genetics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Evolutionary Genetics at Simon Fraser University
German, French, English
Github Skills (29)
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data-wrangling10
genomics10
shell10
database10
genome9
command-line9
jstree9
css8
webservice8
javascript8
bioinformatics8
bam7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ICGC-TCGA-PanCancer/pancancer.info.content
Mar 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:4 releases, 61 PRs, 71 pushes in 1 year
JasonJWilliamsNY/portland_food_and_drink
Jul 2014 - Jul 2014
Contributions:27 commits in 1 day
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