Summary
Jane Shmushkis is a Service Engineer with eight years of hands-on experience at the intersection of mechanical design, lab automation, and bioengineering. She has led and built automation teams and back-end control systems for cultured meat production at Mosa Meat and designed modular hardware and customer-facing Python protocols at Opentrons. Proficient in SOLIDWORKS, rapid prototyping, Arduino, and molecular cloning, she combines wet-lab expertise with practical software and hardware integration skills. Now based in Maastricht, she applies that hybrid skillset to service and support roles at PHENOSPEX, troubleshooting complex instrumentation in real-world lab environments. Her background includes academic research in light-mediated bacterial communication and rapid prototyping for field-deployable active coatings, highlighting a knack for translating experimental science into robust, manufacturable systems. She excels at bridging the gap between researchers and scalable lab automation solutions.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Biotechnology High School
International Baccalaureate Diploma, International Baccalaureate Diploma at International Baccalaureate
Exchange Semester - Bachelor of Science in Engineering Medical Engineering, Exchange Semester - Bachelor of Science in Engineering Medical Engineering at Queen Mary University of London
Master of Science in Engineering Bioengineering, Master of Science in Engineering Bioengineering at University of Pennsylvania
English, Russian, Spanish, Dutch, German