Ernst Oberortner
Founder at Noricum BioSoft LLC
Moraga, California, United States
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Top SchoolErnst Oberortner is a founder and interdisciplinary engineer with 13 years of experience building AI-driven tools, programming languages, and scalable data infrastructures for biotechnology and life sciences. He combines deep expertise in agentic AI, code generation, and domain-specific languages with hands-on bioinformatics leadership at companies like Twist Bioscience and Takara Bio. Ernst has led teams to productionize protein design and synthetic DNA pipelines, establishing software engineering best practices and CI/CD in R&D environments. His academic background (PhD in Distributed Systems) and history developing the Eugene design language reveal a long-standing focus on formalizing biological design and integrating computation with wet-lab workflows. Based in Moraga, CA, he now runs Noricum BioSoft to help early-stage biotech teams and researchers translate complex scientific problems into deployable AI and data platforms. An uncommon strength is his ability to move fluidly between compiler/DSL work and practical lab-facing bioinformatics, accelerating both discovery and productization.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Vienna University of TechnologyEngineer's degree Software Engineering, Engineer's degree Software Engineering at HTL Villach
German, English, Spanish
Github Skills (32)
invoke8
synthetic-biology7
synthetic7
boost6
api6
biology6
flask5
computational-biology5
rest-api5
rest5
java5
java-client5
web-application5
docking4
ide4
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
SynBioDex/libSBOLj2
Feb 2014 - Apr 2014
Contributions:16 commits in 1 month
java-librarybiologysbolsyntheticsynthetic-biology
CIDARLAB/eugene-v2.0
Sep 2014 - Jan 2015
v2.0 of the Eugene Language project [under development]
Contributions:104 commits, 4 comments in 3 months
under-developmenteugene
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