Todd Smith
CTO, Director at Biotech-Careers
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTodd Smith is a seasoned technology and business leader with over two decades of experience building and scaling genomics and bioinformatics companies, including co-founding Geospiza and leading it through acquisition. As CTO and Director at Digital World Biology and advisor to several bioscience startups, he blends deep domain expertise in genomics, systems biology, and clinical diagnostics with pragmatic product and go-to-market strategy. He excels at turning complex scientific problems into validated business models and actionable product plans, and is known for quickly identifying the core of technical and market challenges through careful listening. Todd pairs hands-on technical credibility—earliest work includes automated sequencing tools and visualization like DrawMap—with enterprise sales and customer-facing experience at PerkinElmer. Based in Seattle, he brings a rare combination of research rigor (PhD in Medicinal Chemistry) and entrepreneurial grit that keeps R&D aligned to end-game outcomes. Colleagues value his focus on communication and team alignment that consistently keeps projects on track.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Medicinal Chemistry, PhD Medicinal Chemistry at University of WashingtonBS Genetics Biochemistry, BS Genetics Biochemistry at University of Minnesota
Github Skills (16)
3d-structure8
consolidation8
delphi7
viewer7
bioinformatics6
nodejs6
jupyter-notebook6
structural-biology6
web-application5
batch5
webgl5
protein-structure4
bootstrap-theme1
php1
bootstrap1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
NCBI-Hackathons/MutPredMerge
Feb 2019 - Feb 2019
Consolidation of tools in the MutPred Package
Contributions:29 commits, 28 pushes in 2 days
consolidation
AntibodyEngineers/2024-Antibodies-and-AI
Jun 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:98 pushes in 8 months
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