Maxwell Bates
Applied Scientist at Amazon
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolMaxwell Bates is an applied scientist and software engineer with 13 years of experience building tools at the intersection of software and biology, currently driving special projects at Amazon in San Francisco. He has designed assay orchestration libraries and clinician-facing lab automation UIs at GRAIL and architected Genetic Constructor and Wet Lab Accelerator platforms at Autodesk Research, blending CAD-style design with wet-lab automation. Comfortable across web stacks, automation drivers, and statistical models, he has repeatedly translated complex lab workflows into reliable software and improved assay performance with practical ML and logistic regression. His background in bioengineering (UC Berkeley) and hands-on lab experience give him a rare perspective that spans DNA handling to production orchestration, and he’s known for making lab processes more reproducible and accessible through elegant tooling.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Hong Kong (HKU)Bachelor's degree, Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering at UC BerkeleyLa Jolla High School
Danish, Latin, Chinese, English
Github Skills (133)
synthetic-biology10
synthetic10
computational-biology10
genomics-visualization10
robotics10
reproducible-science10
constructor10
genetic10
biology10
router10
protocols10
simulation10
reproducible-research10
bioinformatics10
singularity9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Autodesk/bionano-wetLabAccelerator
Feb 2015 - Jun 2016
A tool for researchers working in synthetic biology and virology to design robotic wet lab protocols using a visual UI without coding.
Contributions:955 commits, 1 comment in 1 year 4 months
roboticsgenomics-visualizationbiologysimulationbioinformatics
CIDARLAB/clotho3
Jun 2013 - Nov 2014
Contributions:806 commits in 1 year 4 months
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