Scott M. Smith Email & Phone Number

San Francisco Bay Area

I help launch build out initial tech infrastructure, software, databases, for biotech companies funded by top investors. I also come in to work with existing teams to extend existing systems. For some companies I'm the entire engineering team. In others I do specialty work that the execs want that is independent of regular staff.

San Francisco Bay Area

Headed engineering for a stealth startup. Diagnostic for infectious disease: "hypothesis-free" pathogen detection.

Austin, Texas Area

Consulting on bioinformatics and IT infrastructure.

Greater St. Louis Area

I focused on helping take the analysis software systems at the Institute and bend them to the needs of cancer clinicians, with the goal of closing the loop between classical research and clinical decision support.

I led a team that grew from 5 to 20 software engineers with the goal of turning the work of computational biologists into a rapidly-iterating analysis engine. We created The Genome Modeling System, with APIs for data tracking, automated documentation, search, and verifiable reproducibility. We sequenced the first complete cancer genome and published it in.

Greater St. Louis Area

I led an initial experimental small team to attempt to integrate federated groups of analysts into the larger IT infrastructure of the organization, that previously just serviced laboratory tracking. This experiment led to the creation of the subsequent Analysis Pipeline Group, which put analysis engineers under more formal leadership.

Greater St. Louis Area

As the group I worked in absorbed the other development groups around it, I took an assistant manager position, and led the database and software architecture aspects of a developing large-scale Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS). During this time, replacing manual activity with automation led us to be the most cost effective large-scale.

Greater St. Louis Area

I began work at The Genome Sequencing Center near the peak of the Human Genome Project. They had brought on-line large databases to deal with a data scale up and were hiring professional software engineers to re-architect the organically grown academic systems into something to cope with the scale.I initially brought on-line data management for DNA library.

St. Louis, MO

Development and planning for application of genomic and bioinformatic methods to a clinical sequencing environment. Customized software to bring on-line NGS analysis pipelines.

Greater St. Louis Area

As a contract software developer I was one of a team of 20 developing IT infrastructure replacement for an office product distribution company. I implemented parts of their purchasing interface, parts of their product data management interface, as well as the entirety of their just-in-time inventory algorithm back-end, and the interface used by purchasing.