Lucas Hartsough
Senior Design Engineer 2 at Ginkgo Bioworks, Inc.
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLucas Hartsough is a senior design engineer and computational biologist with 12 years of experience building tools that accelerate synthetic biology workflows, from quantitative gene-circuit models to prototyped biological hardware and software for lab scientists. At Ginkgo Bioworks he combines data wrangling and machine learning to turn large biological datasets into actionable insights, while his PhD work included optogenetic hardware development for space biology and engineered probiotics. He excels at bridging wet-lab and computational domains—designing experiments, building search and control software, and developing biosensors and optogenetic systems. Based in Boston, he’s driven by practical applications like synthetic food and biological manufacturing, and brings uncommon experience in translating academic prototypes (including a CubeSat optogenetics prototype) into scalable engineering solutions.
12 years of coding experience
PhD, Bioengineering, PhD, Bioengineering at Rice UniversityBS (Honors), Bioengineering - Synthetic & Systems Track, BS (Honors), Bioengineering - Synthetic & Systems Track at California Institute of Technology
English, Spanish
Github Skills (7)
calibration9
python6
data-science2
science2
machine-learning2
pandas1
data-analysis1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
SynbioLucas/FlowCal
Dec 2017 - Nov 2018
Python Flow Cytometry Calibration Library
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
pythoncytoscapejscytometrycalibrationjupyter-widget
SynbioLucas/Website
Mar 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
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