Austin Crinklaw is a Lead R&D Systems Engineer with eight years of experience building scientific software and leading a small team at Empirico to deliver LIMS, applied machine learning, and agentic workflows for target discovery. Trained in bioinformatics at UC San Diego, he transitioned from wet-lab support to senior bioinformatics roles and now focuses on production-grade tooling that bridges research and engineering. He combines hands-on software development with domain fluency in life sciences, making him adept at turning complex experimental needs into auditable, scalable systems. Based in San Diego, he prefers to keep his work broadly scientific rather than narrowly bioinformatics-focused, reflecting a pragmatic bent toward building useful software for research teams.
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Austin Crinklaw - Lead R&D Systems Engineer at Empirico