Jayson Falkner
Staff Software Engineer at A-Life @ X, the moonshot factory
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJayson Falkner is a Staff Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building scalable, production-grade systems across clinical labs, biotech, and high-throughput networking. He blends hands-on coding (Python, TypeScript, C, React, Docker) with leadership—moving between individual contributor roles and managing teams and projects from R&D to manufacturing. His recent focus is on large-scale clinical lab infrastructure for data-driven precision oncology, combining LIMS, automation, and daily lab operations to quadruple throughput in prior roles. He has a strong track record of turning batch pipelines into real-time systems (5x faster at Deepfield), shipping telehealth and genomics products at scale (Color, Strata), and prototyping ML for clinical use. With a PhD in Bioinformatics and deep cross-disciplinary experience spanning software, hardware, and lab science, he’s comfortable troubleshooting both multi-threaded C libraries and end-to-end lab workflows. Based in Ann Arbor, he’s equally at home optimizing sequencing pipelines and building production web platforms—he simply likes to build stuff that works.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Bioinformatics, PhD, Bioinformatics at University of MichiganBachelor of Science (BS), Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of Miami
Github Skills (52)
python9
linux9
windows9
aws9
configurations9
scientific-computing9
macos9
package-manager9
arm8
hpc8
multiple-versions8
searchkit8
build-tools7
spack6
nodejs5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jfalkner/SearchkitExample
May 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:39 commits, 17 PRs, 25 pushes in 1 month
searchkitexploregoallimssearch-engine
jfalkner/github_project_management
Mar 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:24 commits, 2 PRs, 37 pushes in 1 month
project-managementengineeringsimple-projectengineering-teams
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