Wilson Mak
CTO at amplifye (Formerly Digestiva)
Sacramento, California, United States
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Top SchoolWilson Mak is a biotech founder and CTO with 11 years of experience translating computational enzyme design into GMP-scale biomanufacturing. He built the protease platform behind Amplifye P24 and led assay, HPLC/UPLC, and DoE-optimized fed-batch processes that scaled through 45,000 L and delivered >90% purity at target COGS. Equally comfortable with Rosetta/AlphaFold-driven enzyme engineering and bench-to-production execution, he authored foundational patents and helped secure $22M+ in funding including an $18.4M Series A. He also drove regulatory strategy (Self-Affirmed GRAS), qualified global CDMOs, and developed automation microservices (Python/FastAPI/Pinecone) to streamline internal R&D workflows. Based in Sacramento, he blends deep academic rigor from a PhD with hands-on operations leadership, uniquely bridging computational discovery, analytics, and large-scale food-grade manufacturing. An unexpected strength: he pairs enzyme discovery intuition with practical automation to compress the path from sequence to compliant commercial product.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Chemistry at University of California, DavisBachelor of Science (BS), Biochemistry, Bachelor of Science (BS), Biochemistry at Brigham Young University - Hawaii
French, English, Chinese, ChineseGithub contributions (4)
wilsonctr/Common-tools
Feb 2015 - Nov 2022
Contributions:13 pushes in 7 years 10 months
wilsonctr/Pyrosetta-Protocols
Mar 2016 - Sep 2019
Contributions:17 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 5 months
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