Isaac Berkowitz
Software Engineer at Benchling
Berkeley, California, United States
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Top SchoolIsaac Berkowitz is a seasoned full-stack software engineer based in Berkeley, California, with 11 years delivering healthcare and biology-informed software. At Benchling since 2019, he builds scalable, end-to-end systems that support scientific research and life sciences workflows. Previously at athenahealth, he led efforts to transform 15 years of medical records into an interoperable format, orchestrating pipelines that process 500 million changes across 100 million patients daily using Hadoop streaming on AWS. He has deep experience modernizing legacy data platforms—from moving Perl monoliths to microservice architectures to defining clinical data models and automated testing frameworks. His work blends software engineering with biomedical insight, including patient-safety features such as medication dosage calculations and data consolidation across networks. He earned a BS in Computational Biology from Brown University, where he also conducted research and taught as a head teaching assistant.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - Sc.B., Computational Biology, Bachelor of Science - Sc.B., Computational Biology at Brown University
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Github Skills (68)
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
berkowitzi/dandi
Jan 2014 - Jan 2019
MIDI Show Control for ETC ION and Dance
Contributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 5 years
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berkowitzi/multiplayer_sudoku
Feb 2017 - Feb 2017
Contributions:1 PR, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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