Charles Schoonover
Sr. Director Of Software Development at Bionano
San Marcos, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCharles Schoonover is a seasoned engineering leader with over 23 years delivering precision-engineered software and instruments for life sciences imaging and automation. As a Sr. Director of Software Development he has led cross-disciplinary teams to ship commercial-grade instrument control, image processing, and analysis platforms—most notably driving the Saphyr™ instrument software that achieved a 10x throughput improvement. He blends hands-on expertise across firmware, embedded systems, C/C++, C#, WPF/MVVM, and data pipelines with strong product and release management practices including feature-driven agile. Known for recruiting, coaching, and retaining top talent, he builds shared engineering language between hardware, biology, and bioinformatics stakeholders. Comfortable operating from prototype R&D through regulated commercial releases, he emphasizes recoverability, in-process logging, and field supportability. Based in San Marcos, CA, he pairs deep technical craft with a pragmatic focus on measurable throughput and user burden reduction.
10 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Arizona
Github Skills (24)
winston8
sql8
javascript8
postgresql8
mysql7
portable7
logger7
logging6
oracle6
database6
sql-server6
nodejs6
sqlite6
structured-logging5
query-builder5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
bionanogenomics/smap2vcf
Mar 2017 - Jan 2020
Contributions:15 pushes in 2 years 10 months
bionanogenomics/File-Format-Specification-Sheets
Mar 2017 - Jan 2020
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
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