Rob Lasko
Principal Software Engineer at Foundation Medicine
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRob Lasko is a Principal Software Engineer in Boston with over a decade of experience architecting and delivering mission-critical systems across computational genomics, enterprise storage, radar/space surveillance, and flight control domains. He leads pipeline engineering at Foundation Medicine, combining deep backend Java and Python expertise with cloud-native practices, petabyte-scale data stewardship, and containerization to operationalize genomics platforms. His background spans low-level systems work—SSD caching, NUMA, and virtualization at Intel—to real-time embedded flight-control development and VLSI research, giving him a rare full-stack systems perspective. A hands-on technical lead and mentor, he blends rigorous engineering practices (TDD, CI/CD, infrastructure as code) with practical product impact. Notable but less obvious: he has repeatedly translated aerospace-grade simulation and test-stand design experience into robust integration and automation approaches for large-scale bioinformatics pipelines.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Wilton HSBS Computer Systems Engineering, BS Computer Systems Engineering at University of Massachusetts AmherstMS Electrical Engineering, MS Electrical Engineering at Columbia University
Github Skills (53)
spring-boot10
tabix9
java9
spring9
pair-programming9
samtools9
command-line9
pysam9
bioinformatics9
bcftools9
cli9
htslib9
docker8
python8
anthropic8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
rjlasko/ansible
Dec 2019 - Dec 2022
Contributions:483 commits, 94 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years
rjlasko/minikron
May 2017 - Jun 2019
Contributions:23 commits, 35 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
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