Seth Carbon
Software Engineer, System Engineer Administrator
Oakland, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSeth Carbon is a seasoned software and systems engineer with 18 years of experience building tools for scientific research, data handling, and education from his base in Oakland, California. At Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory he has designed, developed, and maintained high-profile bioinformatics platforms such as Noctua, AmiGO, Monarch, OBO-Edit, and the modENCODE submission pipeline, combining software engineering best practices with system security and deployment expertise. His background spans scientific programming, web and data systems (from USGS bathymetry tools to UCSC gene-finding pipelines), plus hands-on ops work managing both physical and virtual infrastructure. Comfortable leading working groups and delivering training, he also brings cross-cultural communication experience from years teaching and interpreting in Japan. Collected experience in Fortran through modern stacks gives him a rare ability to bridge legacy scientific codebases and contemporary reproducible pipelines.
18 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
University of California Santa Cruz
English, Japanese, Chinese
Github Skills (170)
web-application10
python10
annotations10
ontology10
semantic-web10
metadata10
maven10
owl10
data-repository10
ontologies10
genes10
browser10
api10
pipeline10
yaml10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
geneontology/noctua-models-migrations
May 2022 - Jul 2026
Migration, change, update metadata for noctua-models
Contributions:1 review, 8 PRs, 13 pushes in 4 years 2 months
linked-open-datadata-managementupdatenoctuamigration
kltm/tanuki
Nov 2013 - Jan 2019
Contributions:21 commits, 3 pushes, 1 comment in 5 years 3 months
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