Joshua Nixon
Co-Founder And CTO at Prime Roots
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolJoshua Nixon is a founder-CTO blending a decade of software engineering and synthetic biology experience to build Prime Roots’ koji-based alt-meat platform in the San Francisco Bay Area. He designs scalable, biology-driven systems—ranging from F# graph-based genome storage and database-agnostic architectures to Python backend services and Node.js parsers—grounded in hexagonal design and practical lab workflows. Joshua moved from national lab and biotech teams (KBase, Amyris, TeselaGen) to commercialize a Michelin-quality, sliceable mycelium protein product aimed at disrupting the $300B deli market. He pairs hands-on wet-lab process development with production engineering, reflecting a rare hybrid of bench and backend expertise. Known for shipping robust, testable code and solving tricky async and data-storage problems, he focuses on sustainability solutions that scale.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Bioengineering (Synthetic Biology) and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Bioengineering (Synthetic Biology) and Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyAdvanced Regents Diploma with Honors, Advanced Regents Diploma with Honors at Saratoga Springs High School
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javascript10
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nodejs10
microsoft-graph9
property-based-testing8
vector8
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notebook6
microsoft6
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Github contributions (5)
nixonpjoshua/JNixonHelloContigsFilter
Oct 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:20 pushes, 1 branch in 11 days
Leodespaux/CASdesigner_Working
Nov 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:4 PRs, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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