Stephen Dudek Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Menlo Park, California, Us

Vice President of Technology at an oligonucleotide manufacturing and gene editing company, leading multiple teams across chemistry, research, development, software, hardware, and automation. Set the annual technology roadmap and help chart the product roadmap. Raised clinical production yields three fold, doubled high throughput RNA yields, developed in-line process assays, set clinical production metrics, and wrote the initial clinical data systems.

Menlo Park, California, Us

Leading cross-functional teams in new product development, process chemistry, sustainability, data, and chemical software applications. Scaled up GMP production four fold, increased and stabilized production yields to new highs. Sets and curates chemistry development goals and metrics. Creative, collaborative, inspirational teacher.

Menlo Park, California, Us

Direction of Chemistry Development, in charge of teams that improve company chemistry, decide factory data metrics, set up data pipelines, automate factory alerting, and report regularly those metrics to the executive team. Wrangling tremendous improvements not just from the standard company products—saving millions of dollars—but also tackling scale-up and GMP chemistry.

Menlo Park, California, Us

Combining process chemistry with data sciences to monitor, understand, and improve Synthego's core product chemistry. Leading the charge of a small group to characterize process yields, coupled with extensive data analysis of historic factory performance. Responsible for production scale-up and deployment of Good Manufacturing Practices.

Menlo Park, California, Us

Data Scientist at Synthego. Writing and maintaining data injection and analysis of mass spec, qc, and cell data to monitor production processes, set product specifications, and improve operations. Drafting numerous Tableau graphs for executives to visualize production health.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Software Engineer in the Dry Lab Operations group. Wrote numerous production tools and dashboards in Python, HTML, and Javascript for applications such as: Turn-Around Time Calculator that estimates every day through stochastic simulations the delivery dates for all patient samples; Stuck Samples that mines historic lab data to identify stuck and delayed requisitions. Night and weekend Site Reliable Engineer to triage and upright failed servers, processes, and DNA sequencers.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Data Scientist in the Production Bioinformatics group for data collection and visualization. Sole architect of over 200 Tableau graphs used by executives, operations, client services, and R&D. Designed, wrote, and maintained 6 ETL’s that extracted production data through Datomic, Elasticsearch, and SQL queries; transformed the datasets through Python scripts; loaded the data into Tableau through self-designed flask apps. Performed numerous bespoke analyses through iPython notebooks with pandas/matplotlib graphs. Drafted and presented the weekly report of company lab metrics.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Artist in residence at Gray Area Foundation for the Arts. Leading a construction team building large-scale, interactive LED displays. Enrolled in their intensive (10hr/wk) Creative Coding course on the fundamentals of HTML, CSS, Javascript, Processing, node.js, projection mapping, arduino microcontrollers, project development, and art installation.

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

Staff Scientist in the Semiconduction Integrated Device group, perfecting surface attachment and passivation of the company’s DNA-sequencing chips. Responsible for analysis and approval of all reagents used in chip manufacturing. Researching innovative approaches to load sequencing chip sites above the statistical Poisson limit.

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

Senior Scientist in the surface group at a start-up company focused on DNA sequencing. Chief synthetic and analytical chemist for the surface group, responsible for determining the composition, function, and variability of all incoming materials for surface modification. Synthesized new reagents not commercially available for better surface passivation.

Billerica, Ma, Us

Advanced Scientist in a start-up company’s research and development division, designing new pigment inks for electrophoretic, non-emissive displays used in the Amazon Kindle and B&N Nook. A systems’ integrator, responsible for all steps of the investigatory process: pigment synthesis and colloid functionalization; construction of sample displays; electo-optical evaluations; coordination of the collaborating members of the team.

Post-Doc, Schekunidge

Post-Doc, Chemistry

Ph.D, Chemistry

B.A., Chemistry, English