Scott Goodrow
Staff Software Engineer at Benchling
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolScott Goodrow is a Staff Software Engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with a decade of experience building production-grade, turn-key software for biotech and industrial applications. He has led high-performing engineering teams at Ginkgo Bioworks and Zymergen, creating bioinformatics search tools, deduplicated data ingestion pipelines that leverage LLMs, and developer-acceleration tooling to ship modern web apps in minutes. His full‑stack fluency spans Python/Django, Go, Java, Typescript/Next.js, and data-oriented tools like RdKit, Diamond, and Postgres, applied to problems from biological inventory search to IIoT dashboards. Scott pairs hands-on implementation with architecture standardization—instituting ADRs and reproducible onboarding—to reduce rework and increase velocity. A former founding game engineer and astrophysics researcher, he brings a rare mix of scientific rigor, product curiosity, and community-building energy to technical leadership.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
University of California San Diego
English, French
Github Skills (39)
react-components10
material-ui10
discord-bot10
react10
react-component-library9
material-design9
mongodb9
sqlite8
database8
predix-ui8
sql-server8
prisma8
javascript8
nodejs8
shopify8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
sgoodrow/castle
Apr 2022 - Jan 2023
The Castle community's Discord bot.
Contributions:39 reviews, 128 commits, 100 PRs in 9 months
discord-bot
sgoodrow/dkp
Jul 2024 - Aug 2025
Contributions:5 PRs, 51 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year
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