Kathryn A
Member Of Technical Staff at Stealth Startup
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKathryn A is a pragmatic technical leader and scientist with 17 years of experience building interdisciplinary teams, labs, and bioinformatics platforms across startups and large organizations. She has launched high-complexity CLIA operations, managed multi-million-dollar technology alliances, and founded LabGrid, a flexible LIMS and ML model wrapper with public GitHub presence. Comfortable at the intersection of biology, software, and operations, she has led product and alliance management at Ginkgo and served as director-level informatics lead at Caribou and other biotech firms. Kathryn pairs PhD-level biological engineering training with a Computer Science BSE and entrepreneurial instincts honed through YC and startup work, enabling rapid translation of research into regulated, production-ready systems. Notably, she has also advised the EPA to clear a multi-year backlog, demonstrating an ability to navigate stakeholder complexity beyond the lab.
17 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Y CombinatorPhD Biological Engineering, PhD Biological Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science in Engineering (BSE) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science in Engineering (BSE) Computer Science at University of Pennsylvania
Github Skills (27)
ikiwiki10
perl-module10
perl9
fetch9
internet9
youtube8
sqlite-database8
wiki-engine7
pdf7
dist-zilla7
ffmpeg7
cli7
database6
api6
gitbook6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
rubykat/FvwmPiazza
Nov 2009 - May 2015
Contributions:71 commits, 1 push in 5 years 6 months
rubykat/Muster
Mar 2017 - Nov 2024
Contributions:196 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 9 months
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