Career

Senior Bioinformatics Scientist | Agentic AI & LLM Tooling | Cloud Architect

Summary

Hybrid Bioinformatics Platform Engineer and AI Architect with 15+ years bridging complex multiscale biology (NGS, single-cell, spatial) and scalable AWS infrastructure. Specializes in designing the deterministic tooling, APIs, and backend frameworks required for agentic AI systems and LLM tool-use to operate reliably on massive biomedical datasets. Deeply proficient in AI-assisted development workflows and translating complex clinical and biological data challenges into automated, scalable cloud pipelines. A dual-expert who speaks the native language of domain scientists while engineering the high-performance distributed systems that power modern AI.

Experience

1. Solutions Architect & Full-Stack Engineer (AI & Data Platforms)

   Jun 2025 – Present

   TileDB · Remote

2. Founding Cloud Engineer / Architect

   Sep 2020 – Feb 2025

   Singular Genomics · San Diego, CA

3. Computational Biologist

   Aug 2019 – Sep 2020

   Metabiomics · San Diego, CA

4. Computational Biologist

   Apr 2017 – Jul 2019

   Kaleido Biosciences · Boston, MA

Education

• University of California, Berkeley

  2010–2016

  Ph.D. · Plant and Microbial Biology

• Oklahoma State University

  2005–2009

  B.S. · Microbiology · Summa Cum Laude

Awards

• NSF Graduate Research Fellowship · National Science Foundation 2010–2015
• Chancellor's Fellowship for Graduate Study · University of California, Berkeley 2010–2012

Areas of Expertise

• Agentic AI & Development
• Bioinformatics & Multi-Omics
• Cloud & MLOps Infrastructure
• Data Engineering & Analytics