Alfred Millett-sikking
Staff Engineer at Calico Life Sciences
South San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolAlfred Millett-Sikking is a Staff Engineer and physicist with a decade of R&D experience building novel microscopy hardware and imaging methods from concept to user-ready systems. Based in South San Francisco, he invented the AIRR remote-refocus technique and the AMS-AGY objective that enabled fast, single-objective light-sheet microscopes and large field-of-view SOLS platforms used for biological imaging. His work spans optics, mechanics, electronics and software—designing opto-mechanics, control systems, and data pipelines while training users and translating prototypes into reliable instruments. Known for pragmatic inventiveness, he has repeatedly turned theoretical optics into practical, published tools and collaborates across teams to deploy cutting-edge microscopes for real biological applications.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
A levels, Maths, Physics, Biology, Spanish, Computing AS, A, A, B, B, B., A levels, Maths, Physics, Biology, Spanish, Computing AS, A, A, B, B, B. at York College, York UKMSci, Physics, 1st Class Honours and D. A. Wright Prize for best research project, MSci, Physics, 1st Class Honours and D. A. Wright Prize for best research project at Durham UniversityMalton School
English, Spanish
Github Skills (19)
hardware-designs10
scientific-publications10
placement10
hardware10
ieee10
microscopy10
imagej9
hosts9
cluster-computing9
surface9
zarr8
infiniband8
image8
infinity8
javascript7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
amsikking/microscope_objectives
Sep 2022 - Nov 2022
An introduction to 'infinity' corrected microscope objectives: https://amsikking.github.io/microscope_objectives
Contributions:2 releases, 20 commits, 1 PR in 1 month
infinitymicroscope
amsikking/snoutclub
Feb 2023 - Feb 2025
Contributions:2 releases, 22 pushes, 2 tags in 2 years
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