Kodiak received his BA from the University of California, Berkeley in Molecular Biology & Biochemistry, where he did research in computational biology, evolutionary genomics, and CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing. After graduating, he began working in biotech conducting high-throughput mutation screens using Next Generation Sequencing. At Ansa, Kodiak is working to build, optimize, and scale-up sequencing and bioinformatic pipelines.