Joshua Shapiro
Head Of Systems Engineering at Meadowlark Engineering
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
prompt7
cli7
nodejs7
bioinformatics6
javascript6
command-line6
inquirer5
zeplin5
illumina5
typescript5
workflow-management4
python3
clarity3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jns/PsiShooter
Apr 2009 - Jun 2009
Contributions:68 commits in 1 month
MeadowlarkEngineering/query-builder
Jul 2024 - Jan 2025
Construct postgresql queries using a builder pattern
Contributions:1 release, 6 PRs, 43 pushes in 6 months
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