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Aaron Kimball
CTO at Zymergen, Inc.
Aaron Kimball is a prominent technology executive known for his role as the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Zymergen, Inc., a biotech company focused on synthetic biology and automation. He served as CTO from April 2014 to April 2022, where he led the technology department and was instrumental in building a team of over 160 professionals, including software engineers, data scientists, and lab automation experts. Under his leadership, Zymergen developed a cutting-edge genome engineering platform that enabled high-throughput operations in synthetic biology, advanced machine learning applications for genome optimization, and created a significant digital metagenomics sequence library.1
Prior to his tenure at Zymergen, Kimball founded WibiData, a company that specialized in big data applications, and worked at Cloudera, where he contributed to the development of Apache Sqoop and designed training curricula for Hadoop. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Cornell University and a Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Washington.1
Currently, he is the Head of Engineering at Benchling, where he continues to innovate in the life sciences sector.1
