Sol Shenker
CEO at Shenker Bioinformatics, LLC
Belmont, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSol Shenker is a mission-driven CEO and computational biologist with 12 years of experience building cloud-native bioinformatics infrastructure and CRISPR analytics for drug discovery and gene-edited cell therapies. He combines a PhD-level background in bioinformatics with hands-on wet-lab experience in CRISPR assays and genotoxicity evaluation, enabling clear translation between lab and computation teams. As founder of Shenker Bioinformatics and former leader of computational biology at KSQ, he has implemented traceable, version-controlled workflows, helped multiple IND submissions, and bootstrapped SeqCMD to streamline sequencing provenance for startups. Known for coaching cross-functional teams and applying ML to biomarker discovery, he prioritizes reproducibility and regulatory-ready analytics. Based in Belmont, MA, he blends deep domain expertise with product-minded engineering to make complex genomics processes auditable and operational.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Bioinformatics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Bioinformatics at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer CenterBachelor’s Degree Biochemistry minor Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Biochemistry minor Computer Science at McGill University
Github Skills (50)
spark-ml10
genome10
bam10
transcript10
sequencing10
bioinformatics10
genomics10
fasta10
feature-extraction9
spark9
ssa9
gatk9
kallisto9
science9
rna-seq9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
shenkers/CrossBrowse
Dec 2014 - Nov 2016
Contributions:6 releases, 114 commits, 58 pushes in 1 year 11 months
shenkers/isoscm
Apr 2014 - Jan 2016
Transcript assembly tool using multiple change-point inference to improve 3'UTR annotation
Contributions:11 releases, 48 commits, 3 PRs in 1 year 9 months
change-pointfeature-extractioninferencepointutr
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