Mark Dayel
Architect at Lumentum
Berkeley, California, United States
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Top SchoolMark Dayel is an architect with 21 years of experience at the intersection of biophysics, microscopy, optics, and medical imaging, currently based in Berkeley and working at Lumentum. He blends deep wet-lab expertise from PhD and postdoctoral work—developing sensitive biochemical assays, advanced electron and light microscopy techniques, and characterizing novel choanoflagellates—with high-performance computational skills, including multithreaded C++ simulations and advanced data visualization. His career spans academia and industry, from foundational research featured in Nature and The New York Times to principal engineering and architecture roles in photonics and medical-device startups. Known for turning complex physical and biological problems into robust imaging and analysis systems, he builds both hardware interfaces and the software that extracts actionable insight. Colleagues rely on him for cross-disciplinary leadership that bridges optics, image analysis, and computational modeling. An underappreciated strength is his track record of shipping production-ready instrumentation informed by deep mechanistic science.
21 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Engineering and Physical Science in Medicine (Biomedical Engineering), MSc, Engineering and Physical Science in Medicine (Biomedical Engineering) at Imperial College LondonPhD, Biochemistry and Biophysics, PhD, Biochemistry and Biophysics at University of California, San Francisco
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Github Skills (14)
anaconda9
ide8
language-server-protocol8
qt7
python7
development-environment7
spyder7
python-development7
pyqt7
git6
merge6
version-control6
shiny6
r6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
markdayel/comet
Apr 2005 - Apr 2013
Contributions:224 commits in 8 years 1 month
spyder-ide/spyder
Sep 2019 - Sep 2019
Official repository for Spyder - The Scientific Python Development Environment
Contributions:2 comments in 1 day
pythonpyqt5anaconda-distributionanacondapyqt
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