Kelly Carpenter
Genetic Engineer and Computer Scientist


Kelly Carpenter is a genetic engineer and computer scientist working in the area of bioinformatics IT architecture and infrastructure design. He worked in both wet bench genetics research including the mapping of disease genes including Pendred Syndrome the most common form of congenital deafness. He then worked as the senior technical manager for the Genome Sequencing Center at Washington University in Saint Louis.

He was the IT architect at the GSC which sequenced 20% of the Human Genome Project. Kelly has been a member of the Cisco Systems storage network technical advisory board which led to the development of the MDS line of storage switches. He was a Symantec Visionary Award winner for his work on the Human Genome Project. He has spoken many times on the topics of infrastructure and storage scaling and backup at Bio-IT World, Storage Decisions, Storage Network World and Supercomputing. He has spoken on the subject of high capacity, low latency network interconnects at Interop.

He also has appeared twice on the cover of Storage Magazine.