# Jacob Warwick

> Experienced software engineer with background in statistics and biotechnology

Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/jacobwarwick

Staff software engineer with extensive experience architecting and implementing distributed, cloud-native systems at scale. Demonstrated success leading complex technical initiatives that significantly improve performance, reduce costs, and enhance reliability across mission-critical applications.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Delfi Diagnostics
Jan 2021 – Present | Palo Alto, California, United States
- Designed and implemented event-driven, cloud-native data analysis pipeline processing hundreds of terabytes of DNA sequencing data for lung cancer screening purposes.

- Architected and led Kubernetes migration of bioinformatic analysis pipelines, achieving a 2.5x increase in throughput and 60% cost reduction, while maintaining backward compatibility.

- Implemented petabyte-scale data lake with discovery and query APIs, supporting 30+ data scientists in product development and validation efforts.

- Established automated test frameworks achieving >90% coverage across business-critical systems.
Designed and implemented service for enterprise data storage and discovery fulfilling ISO-27001 compliance requirements and FAIR data principles.

- Promoted software engineering and architecture best practices through design reviews, mentoring, and documentation.

- Pioneered event-driven service architecture, decoupling tightly integrated systems and enabling asynchronous releases between interconnected software components.

- Defined architectural vision and roadmap, balancing tech debt with business priorities.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Adaptive Biotechnologies Corp.
Jan 2016 – Jan 2021 | Seattle, Washington, United States
- Optimized a complex variant-calling algorithm, reducing runtime from hours to minutes using Java concurrency techniques and data structures.

- Built a serverless task service within a strictly regulated environment, and integrated it with central business applications, enabling faster development cycles for new features.

- Implemented Hadoop / Apache Impala back-end API for on-demand analytics, improving stability and latency by >50% across billions of rows of DNA sequencing records.

- Developed a configurable clinical trial data ingestion pipeline supporting 10+ clinical trials with multi-million dollar revenue data transfer agreements.


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Data Science
University of Washington

### Bachelor’s Degree in Statistics and Political Science
The George Washington University

### High School Diploma
Cary Academy

### Ethics and Leadership
The School for Ethics and Global Leadership


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jwarwick

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Last updated: 2026-03-30