Josef Spidlen
Senior Director Of Software Engineering at Waters Corporation
Ashland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolJosef Spidlen is a senior technology leader with 18 years of experience building and scaling informatics platforms for life sciences, currently serving as Senior Director of Software Engineering at Waters Biosciences after leading Informatics R&D at BD. He blends hands-on software engineering and bioinformatics expertise with leadership of globally distributed teams across engineering, DevOps, QA, and product security to deliver cloud and desktop solutions for single‑cell multi‑omics. Josef sets technical vision and drives execution on research-driven computational approaches, modernizing platforms to support scientific and regulated workflows. His background spans academia and industry—from medical informatics research and EHR work to commercial bioinformatics products—giving him a rare combination of domain depth and pragmatic delivery focus. Based in Ashland, Oregon, he is as comfortable diving into large data processing and algorithmic problems as he is mentoring teams to ship reliable, high‑impact software.
18 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
Gymnazium F. X. SaldyDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Biomedical/Medical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Biomedical/Medical Engineering at Charles University
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Github Skills (19)
cytoscapejs9
dataflow-programming8
fourier-transform7
solidworks7
infrastructure7
transform7
visualization6
r6
big-data5
interpolation4
graphical-user-interface4
data-sharing4
machine-learning3
imaging2
cross-platform2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jspidlen/flowUtils
Apr 2016 - Dec 2022
Package Homepage: https://github.com/jspidlen/flowUtils Bug Reports: https://github.com/jspidlen/flowUtils/issues
Contributions:2 PRs, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 9 months
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jspidlen/FlowRepositoryR
Feb 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:33 commits, 31 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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