Teague Sterling
Director Of Computational Biology Systems
San Anselmo, California, United States
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Top SchoolTeague Sterling is a director-level computational biology systems leader with 12 years of experience building scalable research infrastructure for genomics and drug discovery teams. Currently leading Computational Biology Systems at 23andMe after senior leadership roles at BioMarin, he combines deep hands-on engineering—cluster orchestration, automated deployments, and high-performance molecular docking—with product-focused systems design. At UCSF he architected multi-billion-compound chemical databases (ZINC) and maintained DOCK37, showing an uncommon blend of bioinformatics, distributed systems, and software engineering. An active open-source contributor, he has improved build and dependency handling in the widely used Spack package manager, helping keep scientific software reproducible across platforms. Based in San Anselmo, CA, he pairs pragmatic code craftsmanship with long experience translating complex computational science needs into robust, production-ready platforms.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at San Francisco State University
Github Skills (11)
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package-management10
python9
build-tools9
version-control8
scientific-computing7
sh6
script6
shell6
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
spack/spack
Feb 2023 - Mar 2025
A flexible package manager that supports multiple versions, configurations, platforms, and compilers.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:105 reviews, 117 PRs, 291 comments in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Teague primarily contributed to the `spack/spack` repository by modifying package recipes, focusing on the build process and dependencies for various software packages. Their work involved fixing version handling, updating build systems, and adding new versions for packages like `duckdb`, `ollama`, `yq`, and `mariadb`. They also addressed conflicts and refined dependencies for other packages within the Spack ecosystem.
compilerspythonradiussplatformslinux
teaguesterling/spack
Jul 2023 - Mar 2025
A flexible package manager that supports multiple versions, configurations, platforms, and compilers.
Contributions:24 PRs, 625 pushes, 126 branches in 1 year 8 months
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