Summary
Jared Luxton is a Senior Software Engineer with seven years of experience blending rigorous research roots and production-grade data engineering to solve high-consequence problems. He led deployment and migration of an agency-wide lakehouse and 200+ PySpark pipelines at USDA APHIS, delivering real-time analytics and decisioning that yielded over $200M/year in avoided costs and served thousands of users. Comfortable across cloud platforms, Palantir Foundry, Databricks, Azure, and full-stack TypeScript CI/CD, he translates complex scientific and operational requirements into reliable, governed data products. His PhD-trained background in cellular biology and computational research informs a rare combination of domain expertise and engineering discipline—evidenced by automating image processing pipelines that reduced runtimes from a month to minutes. Now at Cross River, he continues to apply that blend of scientific rigor and pragmatic software delivery to production systems.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, Biology, Math, Latin, High School Diploma, Biology, Math, Latin at East Longmeadow High School
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Cell/Cellular and Molecular Biology, 4.0, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Cell/Cellular and Molecular Biology, 4.0 at Colorado State University
UMass Lowell
Bachelor of Science (BS), Biology, 3.56, Bachelor of Science (BS), Biology, 3.56 at Western New England University
English