Michael Sioda is a Senior Java Developer with 10+ years building and operating mission-critical enterprise systems and a PhD candidate in Bioinformatics, blending production-grade software engineering with domain knowledge in genomics. At Bank of America he architects and supports high-throughput, compliant platforms that process billions of messages and oversee disaster recovery for multi-national data centers, while his research work produced BioLockJ, an open-source pipeline that has powered multiple published microbiome analyses and was adapted for AWS. He excels at designing extensible, well-documented Java architectures, migrating legacy client-server systems to web services, and translating complex regulatory and analytical requirements into reliable production software. Based in Mesa, Arizona, he is pursuing how to bridge core financial-grade infrastructure practices with reproducible bioinformatics workflows to accelerate research in genomics, healthcare, and environmental science.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Bioinformatics, 4th Year, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Bioinformatics, 4th Year at University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Master’s Degree, Computer and Information Sciences, General, 3.89, Master’s Degree, Computer and Information Sciences, General, 3.89 at City University of New York-Brooklyn College
Bachelor’s Degree, Mathematics and Computer Science, 3.03, Bachelor’s Degree, Mathematics and Computer Science, 3.03 at State University of New York College at Geneseo
BioLockJ is an automated metagenomics pipeline for WGS/16s sequence analysis. The extensible Java framework writes/executes bash scripts to call external applications via BioModule interface. BioModules perform sequence processing, taxonomy assignment, univariate modelling, and report generation.
Contributions:75 commits, 76 PRs, 2 comments in 10 months
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Michael Sioda - Senior Java Developer at Bank of America