Jonathon Saunders
Senior Software Engineer at Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Greater Sacramento United States
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Top SchoolJonathon Saunders is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building cloud-native and bioinformatics systems, currently at Microsoft working across Biomedical Platforms, Genomics, and Synapse Analytics. He has blended domain expertise in genomic variant interpretation and clinical pipelines from roles at Children's Mercy and the Broad Institute with large-scale cloud engineering on Azure. Comfortable across Java, Python, C#, and data platforms, he has shipped production services, analytics, and integration work that bridge research and clinical/enterprise needs. Jonathon’s background includes embedded and mobile systems from earlier roles at Garmin and DuPont Pioneer, giving him a practical systems-to-cloud perspective. He’s pursuing an MS in Computer Science with a machine learning specialization, signaling a move to deepen applied ML in genomics and cloud services. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic engineer who reliably turns complex scientific workflows into maintainable, scalable software.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Software Engineering at Iowa State UniversityMaster of Science - MS (In Progress 24/30 credits) Computer Science (Machine Learning Specialization), Master of Science - MS (In Progress 24/30 credits) Computer Science (Machine Learning Specialization) at Georgia Institute of TechnologyDes Moines Area Community College
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Github Skills (41)
docker10
workflow-description-language10
executor10
bioinformatics10
scientific-workflow10
azure10
wdl10
application10
google-cloud-platform9
scala9
workflow-engine9
hpc9
csharp9
workbench8
openstack8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/msgen
Jan 2022 - Jun 2025
Legacy binary files for the Microsoft Genomics service (2017-2025)
Contributions:4 reviews, 2 branches in 3 years 5 months
binary-files
jsaun/college-portfolio
Jul 2015 - Jul 2019
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 1 month
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