Duncan Tormey
Principal Software Engineer at EditCo
Bend, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDuncan Tormey is a Principal Software Engineer in Bend, Oregon, blending eight years of bioinformatics, data science, and software development into scalable, production-grade systems. He currently leads architecture and delivery at EditCo, delivering containerized, cloud-native solutions that bridge biology and data science. At Synthego, he designed and deployed a next-generation sequencing verification pipeline and a reusable CRISPR design service, cutting infrastructure costs by about 10x and establishing TDD and containerization as the gold standard. He also built a validation service for Engineered Cell Libraries and rewrote a bioinformatics Flask API that prevented edits to essential genes, saving hundreds of thousands of dollars annually. Earlier at Amplion, he co-developed a Kubernetes-based NLP pipeline running dozens of deep learning models on millions of documents and built scalable ETL and web-scraping backends, leveraging his genomics background to inform data models. He earned a Master’s in Bioinformatics and a Bachelor’s in Biochemistry from the University of Oregon, underscoring a strong foundation in both biology and software engineering.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
University of Oregon
Github Skills (46)
rest-framework10
django-rest10
transfer-learning9
nlp8
rest-api8
django8
sklearn8
natural-language-processing8
django-rest-framework8
rest8
pytorch7
named-entity-recognition7
scikit-learn7
django-project7
python7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
amplion/bert-sklearn
Dec 2019 - Nov 2021
a sklearn wrapper for Google's BERT model
Contributions:14 PRs, 18 pushes, 16 branches in 1 year 11 months
pytorchnlptransformersbertbert-model
DuncanTormey/fasta_class
Oct 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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