Michael Pinkert
Software Engineer at Google
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Pinkert is a software engineer and cloud-focused data engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable data pipelines and scientific software, now working at Google in Madison, WI. He blends deep academic training (PhD in Health/Medical Physics) with hands-on cloud engineering—designing ELT/ETL pipelines, BigQuery data architectures, and Java/Python services on Cloud Run and Dataflow. At American Family Insurance he led data security for terabytes of sensitive data, mentored peers on testing and CI/CD, and built source-to-target financial quality checks between Oracle and GCP. His research work produced an open-source Python package and interoperable imaging pipelines used across multiple labs and publications, showing a knack for turning complex scientific tooling into reusable developer-facing libraries. Comfortable across C++, Java, Python, and cloud infrastructure, he combines rigorous experimental practice with production-grade software delivery. Colleagues describe him as an effective communicator who bridges research stakeholders and engineering teams to ship practical, auditable solutions.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Health/Medical Physics, Master's Degree, Health/Medical Physics at University of Wisconsin-MadisonBachelor's Degree, Physics, 4.0, Bachelor's Degree, Physics, 4.0 at Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteSPIE Student Leadership WorkshopMorgridge Entrepreneurial Bootcamp
Github Skills (44)
image-processing10
imagej10
python9
transform8
simpleitk7
spim7
chrome-extension7
image-analysis7
chrome6
tcl6
rapid-prototyping6
lua6
segmentation6
java6
simplify6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
uw-loci/polarimetry
May 2017 - Sep 2019
Contributions:2 PRs, 78 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 4 months
collaborationpolarimetry
uw-loci/VerasonicsScripts
Mar 2017 - Oct 2019
Contributions:221 pushes, 2 branches, 5 issues in 2 years 7 months
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