Teshager Kefale
Founder & Chief Technology Officer at Biofect Innovations
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolTeshager Kefale is the Founder and CTO of Biofect Innovations, applying nine years of experience at the intersection of synthetic biology and software to make biology a programmable manufacturing technology. With a PhD in Synthetic Biology from the University of Waterloo and an MSc in Biochemistry from the University of Calgary, he leads strain development and precision fermentation efforts that bridge lab automation, computational design, and entrepreneurial productization. Based in Old Toronto, he blends hands-on research rigor with IT enthusiasm, building reproducible tools and solutions others can adopt and improve. Teshager’s background uniquely positions him to translate complex biological workflows into scalable, developer-friendly platforms for bio-manufacturing. He’s equally comfortable in the wet lab and the codebase, often focusing on practical implementations that accelerate commercialization.
9 years of coding experience
Master's degree - MSc, Biochemistry, Master's degree - MSc, Biochemistry at University of CalgaryDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Synthetic Biology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Synthetic Biology at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (43)
proximity9
proximity-sensor9
sensor9
google-home8
multiarch6
raspberry6
armhf6
fullscreen5
screensaver5
prompt5
plugin5
drobo5
python5
controller5
backup4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
biofects/google-pyrainbird
Aug 2018 - Jan 2020
Rainbird Controller in Python
Contributions:15 commits, 16 pushes in 1 year 5 months
pythoncontrollerpython3python2rainbird
biofects/Google-Home-Messages
Dec 2017 - Dec 2018
This will allow you to post a message to a Google Home with tts without a prompt. You can use this for proximity sensor, mail sensor and many more things.
Contributions:1 release, 28 commits, 4 PRs in 11 months
proximity-sensormailgoogle-homesensorprompt
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