Aaron Kimball is a seasoned software engineer who has worked with top technology companies such as Cloudera, WibiData, and Google. With a BS degree in Computer Science from Cornell University and an MS degree in the same field from the University of Washington, he has extensive knowledge and experience in building data architecture, computational biology, and machine learning analysis systems. At Zymergen, Inc., where he serves as the Chief Technology Officer, Aaron leads a team of software engineers, data scientists, computational biologists, and chemists in designing and building a platform that powers a manufacturing approach to genome engineering and novel product and material research. His expertise in predictive modeling for microbial engineering has led to several patents.