Jim Eldred
Agile Engineering Lead at 1904labs
Staunton, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJim Eldred is an Agile engineering lead with 14 years of professional experience and nine years managing technical teams and scientific computing projects. Based in Staunton, Illinois, he currently leads engineering at 1904labs after driving platform and science operations at Benson Hill and CiBO Technologies. Jim blends deep software development roots from a long tenure at Washington University with hands-on leadership in agri-tech and bioinformatics platforms. He’s comfortable bridging research and production, translating scientific requirements into reliable, scalable engineering processes. Trained in computer science and with early studies in aerospace engineering, he brings a methodical, systems-oriented approach that surfaces non-obvious dependencies and risk early. Known for building cross-functional teams, he emphasizes operational rigor and continuous delivery to accelerate scientific impact.
14 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Southern Illinois University, EdwardsvilleUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (13)
structural-variation10
bioinformatics9
computational-biology9
transactional3
perl3
coverage2
depth2
discovery2
genomics2
lsf1
python1
genome1
testing1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
jeldred/svtools
Apr 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 82 pushes, 9 branches in 5 months
analyzingbioinformaticsstructural-variantsstructural
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