Summary
Jon Strutz is a Senior Software Engineer and scientist with a PhD in Chemical and Biological Engineering and nine years of experience building reproducible, production-ready systems that empower scientific teams. He blends deep domain knowledge in bioinformatics, cheminformatics, and ML/AI with hands-on expertise in Python, C#/.NET, TypeScript, Rust, AWS, IaC, and CI/CD to ship pipelines, CLIs, and data architectures used for genomics and metabolomics workloads. At LanzaTech he led development of 10+ bioinformatics pipelines, cost-optimized cloud infrastructure, and RAG search systems for internal documents; he now applies that systems focus at McMaster-Carr. Jon is comfortable across research and product contexts—having translated mechanistic models into actionable strain-engineering recommendations and built daily genome-scale model builders—so he excels at turning complex scientific problems into reliable software. An often-overlooked strength is his track record of combining rigorous testing, reproducibility and observability to make high-throughput scientific compute both auditable and maintainable.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Circleville High School
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Chemical and Biological Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Chemical and Biological Engineering at Northwestern University
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at The Ohio State University