Resume - Jeff Mellen

Experience

10X Genomics

Senior Director, Software Engineering

Leading team of 20 to develop visualization tools, web applications and internal infrastructure.
Engineering manager for Xenium in-situ instrument UI and Xenium Explorer visualization tools.
Oversees front-line managers responsible for planning and development of all of 10x's Loupe Browsers.
Developed complete backend and assorted visual components for Loupe Browser, a program that allows scientists to explore single-cell and spatial RNA-seq data generated by the 10x Chromium and Visium platforms.
Ibid., for Loupe V(D)J Browser, a tool that allows scientists to explore the immune system at the single-cell level from 10x Chromium data.
Wrote the mkfastq pipeline for all 10x products. (Sorry.)
Progressed from Senior Software Engineer to Director in three and a half years.

Technologies: Go, Python, React/Redux, TypeScript, ES6 Javascript, CSS, AWS, Rust

Lucid Design Group

Full Stack Engineer

Led implementation and testing of BuildingOS' Project Measurement & Verification tool.
Created front-end components & API endpoints for BuildingOS' dashboard pages.
Developed backend monitoring tools such as asynchronous task samplers/counters.

Technologies: Python (Django); HTML, CSS/SCSS, JavaScript (React), MySQL, Graphite/statsd, Docker

HealthTell, Inc.

Senior Software Architect

Led web application development for HealthTell's bioinformatics and laboratory teams.
Designed the tools HealthTell uses to organize and annotate wafers, slides, arrays and experiments.
Created a dynamic graphing interface that plots metrics across an operator's selected array set and dimension.
Co-designed and implemented a clinical sample handling and accessioning workflow, including support for creating blinded sample groups.
Provided a variety of troubleshooting tools and visualizations, including automatic misalignment detection and scanner error warnings.

Technologies: Python (Flask, Pandas, NumPy, SQLAlchemy, Matplotlib); HTML, CSS, JavaScript (AngularJS, Underscore.js, D3), PostgreSQL, basic AWS, Vagrant

Bio-Rad Laboratories (QuantaLife)

Software Architect

Developed web applications to support the R&D behind QuantaLife and Bio-Rad's Droplet Digital PCR technology.
Created a central database and website to organize and display metrics for over one million wells of lab data.
Designed and implemented the instrument validation workflow used on both the assembly floor and in the field.
Wrote scripts to automate copy-number variation (CNV) experiment design, including selection of restriction enzymes.
Won QuantaLife quarterly award for merit during first quarter of employment.
Won Spotlight award for project contributions after acquisition by Bio-Rad.

Technologies: Python (Pylons, NumPy, Matplotlib, PyQt, Sphinx); HTML, CSS, JavaScript (jQuery), MySQL

More Distant Experience

Brooklyn Packet Company (nee TinyCo)

Vice President of Engineering

General engineering for a Flash game on the Facebook platform.
Oversaw production environment as Tap Resort reached the Top 5 of Games category in the iPhone App Store.

Technologies: PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, ActionScript 3, MySQL

23andMe

Senior Software Engineer

Selected technologies to use on consumer website, including Django and jQuery.
Implemented user interface for most of the customer site through launch.
Wrote application logic for store, kit processing, disease report, and onboarding flows.

Technologies: Python (Django), HTML, CSS, JavaScript

Fox Interactive Media

Contractor & Senior Software Engineer, MySpace News

Wrote most user-facing code of MySpace News product (defunct)

Technologies: HTML, CSS, JavaScript (Dojo), Java (Wicket)

Webshaka (YouOS)

Co-Founder & Vice President

Developed YouOS, an extensible in-browser "web desktop"
Y Combinator Winter 2006 class; received seed & angel rounds
In charge of UI implementation & front-end component code
Purchased by eHarmony in 2008 after pivot to Rails-based wedding vendor review site

Technologies: HTML, CSS, JavaScript (Dojo), Python (web.py), Rails

Oracle Corporation

Applications Engineer

Created static analysis tools for PL/SQL and Oracle Forms code for assessing code change impact
Developed Purchase Orders & Agreements modules for Oracle Apps R12

Technologies: Java, PL/SQL

Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Master of Engineering, Computer Science, June 2004

GPA: 4.8/5.0 Thesis: "Visualization and Management of Large Biological Image Datasets."

Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, June 2003

GPA: 4.7/5.0 Internships: MIT Media Lab, AI/LCS Lab

References available upon request.