Summary
Brian Faires is a Machine Learning Engineer with nine years of experience blending .NET software development, laboratory automation, and bioinformatics. At Illumina he maintains and automates large fleets of instruments and assays, while his research in the Brain Development Imaging Lab applies unsupervised learning to identify autism spectrum disorder biomarkers and subtypes for his MS thesis. Formerly an Automation Engineer at Myriad Genetics, he built C# UIs and robot control scripts, championing unit testing and maintainable code. Based in San Diego, he combines hands-on instrument integration with multi-modal ML analysis, and his GitHub reflects a long-running mix of school, research, and hobby projects that showcase practical tooling and experimental prototypes.
9 years of coding experience
The University of Utah
San Diego State University