Nicholas Larus-stone
Engineering Leader, AI at Benchling
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNicholas Larus-stone is an engineering leader and founder focused on applying software and AI to accelerate biological research, currently leading AI at Benchling after founding and exiting Sphinx Bio. With 11 years of experience spanning startups, biotech, and academia, he blends deep engineering chops with domain knowledge from an MPhil at Cambridge and hands-on lab work. He builds infrastructure and AI agents that let scientists spend less time on data plumbing and more on discovery, and he also runs the nonprofit Bits in Bio to advance software-for-science. Known for pragmatic ML applications in biology, he bridges product, research, and engineering to deliver tools that scale in real lab settings.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Philosophy - MPhil Computer Science, Master of Philosophy - MPhil Computer Science at University of CambridgeAB Computer Science, AB Computer Science at Harvard University
Spanish
Github Skills (200)
metadata10
visual-studio10
nodejs10
mongodb10
rest-framework10
editor10
microsoft10
postgresql10
query-builder10
database10
sqlite10
electron10
typescript10
vscode-extension10
sql-server10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
sphinxbio/platechain
Aug 2023 - Oct 2024
LLMs for microplate data
Contributions:6 reviews, 10 PRs, 36 pushes in 1 year 2 months
nlarusstone/corels
Jun 2019 - Oct 2021
Contributions:16 commits, 2 branches in 2 years 4 months
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