# Laura Gelston

> Staff Software Engineer at Amino

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/lauragelston

Microbiologist-turned-software engineer looking to advance biology or fix healthcare. I'm a student at heart interested in designing, testing, and scaling solutions for difficult problems. These days I work mostly with React frontends and Python backends in Docker containers.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Amino Health
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States

### Senior Software Engineer & Manager @ Amino Health
Jan 2020 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco, California, United States

### Senior Software Engineer @ Amino Health
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco, California, United States

### Software Engineer @ Amino Health
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco, California, United States

### Assistant Specialist @ UCSF
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015
Studied prognostic factors for various pediatric leukemias, resulting in papers in two top journals, instituted and documented experimental protocols for generating and analyzing sequencing/flow-cytometry data, and directed collection/processing for clinical trial comparing alternative chemotherapy regimens

### Graduate Student @ Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Jan 2011 – Jan 2013
Designed and executed experiments to investigate the post-translational modifications of Adenoviral proteins


## Education
### BA in Public Health, Earth and Planetary Science
The Johns Hopkins University
Jan 2007 – Jan 2011

### Advanced Software Engineering Immersive
Hack Reactor
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016

### ScM in Molecular Microbiology and Immunology
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Jan 2011 – Jan 2013


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-22