Sidney Markowitz
Member at Apache SpamAssassin, The Apache Software Foundation
New Zealand
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Top SchoolSidney Markowitz is a veteran software engineer and open source leader with a 14-year professional span who bridged Silicon Valley R&D and academic bioinformatics to deliver high-performance tools for research biologists. After pursuing a theoretical PhD modeling the origins of life, he returned to engineering to create and lead development of the Geneious Server and to shepherd Apache SpamAssassin as a long‑time committer and PMC chair. A Lisp hacker and experienced practitioner in security and cryptography (CISSP), he combines deep systems-level programming across many languages with a talent for making complex computational biology accessible to non‑programmers. His career includes research roles at Apple’s ATG, engineering at Symantec and Borland, and invited membership in the Apache Software Foundation, reflecting both scholarly rigor and production-grade software delivery. Now retired in New Zealand, he remains active in open source development, blending theoretical curiosity with pragmatic engineering.
14 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyPhD, Bioinformatics, PhD, Bioinformatics at University of Auckland
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (25)
macos6
oracle6
swing6
homebrew6
locking6
java6
teamcity5
reduction4
assembly4
extraction4
mass-spectrometry4
bioinformatics4
sequencing4
genomics4
large-scale3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Geneious/modhmm
Jul 2019 - Jul 2019
Contributions:2 releases, 2 pushes, 4 tags in 1 day
Biomatters/geneious-eupathdb
Mar 2019 - Mar 2019
Contributions:2 releases, 3 pushes, 3 branches in 4 days
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