Aaron Kimball
Head Of Engineering - Applications
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAaron Kimball is a seasoned engineering leader and founder with 15+ years building large-scale data, automation, and biotech software systems. Currently Head of Engineering for Applications at Benchling, he leads teams that deliver enterprise life-science R&D products that accelerate biotech workflows. Previously he founded and scaled Zymergen’s Technology organization from a handful to 160+ engineers, delivering a full-stack, fully automated genome engineering platform spanning lab automation, cloud/data infrastructure, and ML-driven bioinformatics. An early big-data contributor and entrepreneur, he was Cloudera’s first non-founder employee and co-founded WibiData (creator of the Kiji framework), and authored Apache Sqoop and MRUnit. He combines hands-on engineering depth (open-source provenance and multiple patents in predictive microbial modeling) with proven startup-to-public-company scaling and board-level advising across synthetic biology startups.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
MS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at University of WashingtonBS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Cornell University
Github Skills (38)
arduino-library10
arduino10
flume9
debouncing9
sql9
kicad8
dwarf7
semantic-html7
ranger7
elf6
utility6
debugging6
material-you6
html5
data-extraction5
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
kimballa/arduino-makefile
Mar 2022 - Feb 2026
Contributions:19 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 11 months
kimballa/PyArduinoDebug
Mar 2022 - Jul 2024
Contributions:3 releases, 18 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 4 months
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