# Sean Marten

> Senior Software Engineer

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/seanmarten

Software developer working in biotechnology on laboratory automation solutions to decrease interaction from scientists, increase efficiency and drive repeatable accuracy while performing biological experiments. Throughout my time in this role I have developed strong skills as a backend software engineer setting up micro-services, developing APIs and optimizing the efficiency of our constraint solver. I also have been involved in setting up our CI/CD and architecture of our on-prem and cloud deployments of our software offering, Automation Control Software (ACS).

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Ginkgo Bioworks, Inc.
Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
- Develop orchestration and execution software for automation lab work cells to perform near lights out automation for biological workflows
- Set up networking through various levels of routing from instrument to control server
- Create and manage release cycle for build and deployment of production artifacts to cloud and on-prem k8s and k3s clusters

### Software Engineer @ Zymergen
Jan 2018 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Develop drivers for laboratory automation devices with different interfaces (TCP/IP, serial)
- Create standalone python data uploading application and parsers to shuttle data from laboratory instruments to a laboratory information management system (LIMS)
- Develop standalone python application control the execution of a small biological workcell 
- Collaborate on standalone .NET application to provide an interface for scientists to define workflows for standalone laboratory automation

### Supply Chain Intern @ PepsiCo
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Sacramento, California


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Chemical Engineering
University of California, Davis

### Certificate in Web Development
UC Berkeley Extension


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-29