Summary
Aaron 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 Washington
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Cornell University