Summary
Jake Rothenbuhler is a Principal Software Engineer with 15 years of experience building and leading teams that deliver production software for biotech and genetics applications. He has led engineering organizations responsible for LIMS, bioinformatics pipelines, and HPC infrastructure, most recently heading Sample to Data Engineering at Invitae before joining Labcorp. Jake combines hands-on expertise in Django, React, Postgres, and data-focused tooling with operational rigor—introducing chaos engineering and cutting incident rates from daily to monthly. His work includes large migrations and performance wins (e.g., 20x page load improvements and a MongoDB-to-Postgres migration that accelerated development). Based in Austin, he pairs a physics background from UCLA with deep domain experience enabling lab-scale workflows and scientific data platforms. Not obvious from titles: he’s equally comfortable mentoring distributed teams and writing the production code that makes complex lab processes reliable.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Los Angeles