Summary
Griffin Fujioka is a backend-focused software engineer with 14 years of industry experience and over a decade specializing in designing and operating reliable data-driven systems. Currently at the Allen Institute for Cell Science, he builds mission-critical data ingestion, processing, and lifecycle services while owning deployment, monitoring, and operational automation across AWS and on-prem toolchains. His stack spans Java and Python, PostgreSQL and MongoDB, Airflow, RabbitMQ, Docker, Terraform/Ansible, and observability stacks (TICK/Grafana, ELK), reflecting a full-spectrum data engineering and DevOps fluency. Previously he delivered high-performance Java services at CDK Global and cut his teeth building APIs and clients in diverse environments from ASP.NET/Xamarin to SQL Server. Griffin thrives in multidisciplinary teams tackling scientific problems and brings the practical discipline of TDD, CI/CD, and production monitoring to complex, real-world data platforms. An engineer who likes wearing different hats, he pairs deep backend craftsmanship with hands-on operational ownership.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Seattle Pacific University
Liberty High School
B.S, Computer Science, B.S, Computer Science at Washington State University