Joshua Nixon

Joshua Nixon has had a varied and impressive work experience. Joshua began their career in 2013 as a Synthetic Biology Education Program Developer at UC Berkeley, where they worked with Professor J. Chris Anderson to improve BioE 140L (Synthetic Biology Laboratory) and wrote learning content for synbiotrails. In 2014, they joined Nano Precision Medical as a Life Sciences Process Development, where they designed, implemented, and tested a handling protocol and mounting system for frozen device sterilization, conducted wetlab studies and assays for drug formulation, and calibrated a Tecan freedom evo liquid handling system. In 2015, they moved to TeselaGen Biotechnology as a Software Engineer, where they worked in an agile environment to streamline, optimize, and develop Node.js backend and frontend/Web-Worker code in Javascript. In 2016, they joined Amyris as a Scientific Computing, where they architected and built a graph based system for efficiently storing many similar genomes in F# using functional programming. In 2017, they joined Berkeley Lab as a Software Engineer, where they worked as part of the KBase team building open source software in Python for back end file infrastructure services. Joshua also co-founded Prime Roots (formerly Terramino Foods) in 2017 and served as the CTO, creating a better cut of meat using koji mycelium as the foundational protein and disrupting the 300B deli industry with their sliceable and Michelin Star approved Koji Meats.

Joshua Nixon holds a Bachelor of Science in Bioengineering (Synthetic Biology) and Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley. Joshua also holds an Advanced Regents Diploma with Honors from Saratoga Springs High School.