Joseph Outten
Software Engineer at Metaform
Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoseph Outten is a software engineer with eight years of experience blending data science, bioinformatics, and full‑stack development to build impactful, ethically minded products. At Metaform he designs mobile and web apps, admin tooling, and data dashboards while ensuring ISO/IEC security compliance and experimenting with prompt engineering for generative AI. His early work at UVA’s Biocomplexity Institute informed public health decision-making during COVID through automated analytics pipelines, visualization, and variant modeling that interfaced with state and federal stakeholders. Trained in both biology and computer science, he brings a top‑down, theoretical approach to practical engineering problems in synthetic biology, cultured meat, and reproducibility. Known for moving between research and production, he enjoys turning foundational ideas into reliable systems and exploring interdisciplinary projects that sit at the intersection of ML, genomics, and product engineering.
7 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Biology and Computer Science, BA, Biology and Computer Science at University of Virginia
Github Skills (8)
genome6
pan5
bioinformatics5
genomics5
pipeline3
standardized1
scenarios1
modeling1
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Virginia-iGEM/2018-modeling
Jul 2018 - Oct 2018
Contributions:58 commits, 36 pushes in 3 months
itsyosef/bionetworks
May 2021 - Mar 2022
Models and code for bionetworks synethesis
Contributions:1 PR, 18 pushes in 9 months
bioinformatics
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