Travis Mavrich
Bioinformatics Technical Lead
Sacramento, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTravis Mavrich is a Bioinformatics Technical Lead with over 20 years of scientific experience and a decade of focused industry practice building AI-driven bioinformatics solutions for the food and nutrition sector. He leads interdisciplinary teams at PIPA to translate omics data into deployable SaaS tools that accelerate R&D, improve product nutrition, and uncover new market opportunities. Trained as a molecular biologist with a PhD from the University of Pittsburgh, he combines hands-on pipeline development, cloud-based tool design, and database administration—skills honed while maintaining a national phage genomics database used by thousands of researchers. Known for bridging academic rigor and product delivery, he streamlines cross-team processes to ensure scalable deployments and client-facing demonstrations. Based in Sacramento, he brings both lab bench credibility and technical leadership to commercialize complex biological data into actionable insights.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Peters Township High SchoolBachelor of Science, Genetic and Developmental Biology, Bachelor of Science, Genetic and Developmental Biology at Penn State UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology at University of Pittsburgh
Github Skills (14)
genomics10
pdo10
sql-database9
database-management9
ncbi8
tree-structure8
database8
mysql8
treeview8
phylogenetics7
taxonomy6
python5
visualization5
api5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
SEA-PHAGES/pdm_utils
Aug 2016 - May 2020
MySQL phage genomics database management utilities
Contributions:988 commits, 558 pushes, 74 branches in 3 years 10 months
mysqlsql-databasegenomicspdodatabase
tmavrich/mavrich_mbio_2019
Apr 2019 - May 2019
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 12 days
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