Summary
Seth 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