Michael Gargano
Senior Scientific Software Engineer at The Jackson Laboratory
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Gargano is a Senior Scientific Software Engineer in Denver with over a decade building scientific and data-driven software across research and enterprise environments. At The Jackson Laboratory he progressed from associate to senior roles since 2017, translating bioinformatics needs into production-ready tools that bridge research workflows and scalable software practices. His background blends a B.S. in Computer Science with an M.S. in Bioinformatics, enabling him to fluidly move between algorithmic problems and pragmatic engineering. Earlier experience at Cigna sharpened his web and front-end skills, giving him a full-stack appreciation for user-facing data tools. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic builder who prioritizes reproducibility and maintainability in scientific codebases while keeping an eye toward developer experience.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.), Bioinformatics, Master of Science (M.S.), Bioinformatics at Northeastern UniversityBachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at Eastern Connecticut State University
Github Skills (105)
interpretation10
variants10
ontology10
semantic-web10
owl10
genomics10
ontologies10
annotate10
angular10
groovy10
monarchinitiative10
wordcloud9
schema9
biomedical-ontologies9
medicine9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
iimpulse/rsvart
Jul 2021 - Feb 2025
A re-implementation of svart in rust.
Contributions:1 release, 2 reviews, 13 PRs in 3 years 6 months
rust
conda-forge/loinchpo-feedstock
Jul 2020 - Jan 2023
A conda-smithy repository for loinchpo.
Contributions:10 PRs, 5 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 7 months
pythoncondasmithy
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