Tomer Altman
Senior Bioinformatics Consultant
Oakland, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTomer Altman is a Senior Bioinformatics Consultant with 13 years of experience designing reproducible, production-ready data pipelines and analytical systems for biotech and microbiome companies. As founder of Altman Analytics he has led large-scale projects—from building a Conda-packaged metagenomic annotation tool for the BCB2 project to driving data submission for Serratus’ petabyte-scale viral discovery effort—and has a track record of shipping Dockerized, Snakemake workflows and AWS-deployed services. He pairs deep computational biology expertise (PhD/MS in Biomedical Informatics, UC Berkeley BS in Bioengineering) with practical software engineering, having developed APIs, ML-based pathway predictors, and tools used in regulatory and grant-funded work. An advisor to multiple startups and BioCyc/EcoCyc, he routinely bridges research, product, and infrastructure needs while spotting critical pitfalls early—evidenced by his discovery of flaws in CDC COVID-19 primers that attracted media attention. Based in Oakland, he blends academic rigor with entrepreneurial delivery and a knack for turning complex omics problems into auditable, reproducible solutions.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BS Eng. Bioengineering, BS Eng. Bioengineering at University of California, BerkeleyDe Anza CollegeUniversity of California, San FranciscoDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Biomedical Informatics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Biomedical Informatics at Stanford University
Github Skills (74)
ncbi9
taxonomy9
kraken9
virus9
bioinformatics9
sequence9
classification9
rna-seq8
next-generation-sequencing8
genomics8
kallisto8
genome-assembly8
seq8
blast8
illumina8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
taltman/scripts
Nov 2012 - Jan 2021
Contributions:87 commits, 23 pushes in 8 years 2 months
taltman/taltman.github.io
Mar 2016 - Apr 2021
My website
Contributions:1 PR, 41 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 1 month
react
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