Thibaut Montagne

Head of Software at Sun Genomics, a biotech startup based in San Diego (CA). From Lyon, I lead engineering work across an external development team in India and internal teams in the United States, overseeing the architecture, development, and operations of all core digital platforms. Platform & Product Ownership Designed, operated, and evolved a multi-platform ecosystem including: • Shopify e-commerce site (flore.com) • Customer and healthcare professional portals • Internal admin back-office • LIMS for sample tracking and lab workflows • Custom probiotic formulation platform • iOS & Android mobile applications Engineering & Organizational Leadership • Led and coordinated a distributed external development team based in India (developers, QA, DevOps). • Collaborated daily with US-based product, design, science, and operations stakeholders. • Ensured cross-team alignment and reliable execution in a fully remote, English-speaking environment. Cloud, Infrastructure & Operations • Owned daily AWS operations (EC2, RDS, S3, IAM, SNS, etc.) and production environments. • Managed system reliability, security enforcement, backups, restore testing, and cost monitoring. • Led incident response and ensured continuity across ~10 production systems. Bioinformatics & Scientific Platforms • Maintained and evolved the metagenomics analysis pipeline (WGS, 16S). • Supported scientific teams with validated, production-grade bioinformatics workflows. Ecosystem Integration & Distributed Collaboration • Owned the Shopify ecosystem and third-party integrations. • Worked remotely across time zones and traveled to the US (San Diego, San Francisco) for on-site collaboration.

As the company’s sole bioinformatician during its early growth stage, I designed, implemented, and maintained Gutbuster, Sun Genomics’ metagenomics pipeline used to process customer stool samples and generate microbial profiles for personalized probiotic formulations. Pipeline Development & Scientific Computing • Built and optimized production-grade metagenomics workflows using Bash, R, and Perl. • Performed scientific validation to ensure accuracy and reproducibility of results in HIPAA-constrained environments. • Processed several hundred to several thousand samples during the company’s transition from research to production. Cloud-Based Data Processing • Managed compute and storage resources on AWS (EC2, S3) for scalable bioinformatics workloads. • Monitored resource usage and contributed to cost-aware cloud operations. • Ensured secure handling of sequencing data, metadata, and intermediate files. Cross-Functional Scientific Collaboration • Supported formulation and scientific teams by producing validated microbiome reports and taxonomic profiles. • Served as an early technical liaison between US-based stakeholders and the external development team as software platforms expanded.