Jared Luxton
Senior Software Engineer at Cross River
Fort Collins, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJared 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.
7 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 SchoolDoctor 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 UniversityUMass LowellBachelor of Science (BS), Biology, 3.56, Bachelor of Science (BS), Biology, 3.56 at Western New England University
English
Github Skills (11)
radiation9
machine-learning-models7
statistics6
python6
matplotlib6
pandas5
machine-learning5
data-visualization4
visualization4
data-science4
data-analysis3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Jared-Luxton/radiation-therapy-machine-learning
Jun 2019 - Apr 2021
Developing machine learning models with telomere data to guide radiation therapy treatment decisions
Contributions:167 commits, 112 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
decisionstherapydevelopingradiationmachine-learning
Jared-Luxton/NASA-astronauts-telomeres-chromosomes
May 2019 - Jul 2020
Contributions:189 commits, 4 PRs, 117 pushes in 1 year 2 months
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