Summary
Jonathon 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.
10 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 University
Master 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 Technology
Des Moines Area Community College