Mickael Mendez
Senior Bioinformatician
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolMickael Mendez is a Senior Bioinformatician with 12 years of computational biology experience, combining a PhD in Computational Biology from the University of Toronto with professional roles at RIKEN, FANTOM consortia, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, and Deep Genomics. He builds reproducible, production-ready computational methods that unlock biological insight from large genomic datasets using machine learning, data visualization, and robust software engineering practices. Comfortable bridging research and industry, he has led analyses in international consortia and translated complex genomic questions into scalable pipelines and tools. Based in Toronto, he prioritizes collaborative environments and reproducibility, and brings a rare mix of deep academic rigor and practical, deployment-focused bioinformatics.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computational Biology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computational Biology at University of TorontoMaster's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Aix-Marseille University
Github Skills (26)
python-modules10
genomics-visualization10
python9
orchestration-framework9
bioinformatics9
dependency-resolution8
hadoop8
luigi8
conda8
visualization8
package-management8
bedtools7
scheduling7
bioconda7
rna-seq6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
hoffmangroup/segzoo
Apr 2022 - Jun 2025
Contributions:4 PRs, 15 pushes in 3 years 3 months
mmendez12/2017-01-20_mbp
Jan 2017 - Apr 2019
Contributions:1 release, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
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