Joshua Shapiro
Head Of Systems Engineering at Impossible Machines, Inc.
La Mesa, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoshua Shapiro is a systems engineering leader and founder with 17 years of experience building cloud-native, data-driven software for labs, defense, and scientific customers. As CEO of Meadowlark Engineering and Head of Systems Engineering at Impossible Machines, he designs scalable architectures, computational pipelines, and laboratory automation that bridge instruments, LIMS, and BI systems. His background blends a Ph.D. in electrical engineering focused on semiconductor modeling with hands-on roles from CNC machining and telescope operations to managing offshore engineering teams, giving him uncommon depth across hardware, scientific instrumentation, and software. Joshua’s work emphasizes data governance, Helm/Kubernetes deployments, and safe modernization of legacy systems, enabling incremental upgrades with minimal disruption. He’s equally comfortable architecting microservice platforms and writing low-level integrations for robots and sequencers, making him a pragmatic solver of complex, interdisciplinary problems.
17 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
M.S. Electrical Engineering, M.S. Electrical Engineering at New Mexico Institute of Mining and TechnologyBA Astrophysics, BA Astrophysics at University of California, BerkeleyUniversity of California, Los Angeles
Github Skills (14)
snakemake7
nodejs6
illumina6
cli6
command-line5
bioinformatics5
typescript5
javascript5
prompt4
python3
clarity2
workflow-management2
command-line-tool2
kubernetes1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
MeadowlarkEngineering/sqlark
Feb 2025 - Jun 2026
A lightweight Non-ORM for python and postgresql
Contributions:2 releases, 2 reviews, 1 PR in 1 year 3 months
MeadowlarkEngineering/raceblindredact-cli
Oct 2024 - Jan 2026
Command Line Tool for redacting documents using RaceBlindRedact.Com API
Contributions:14 releases, 2 reviews, 3 PRs in 1 year 2 months
command-line-tool
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