Freenome combines molecular biology and machine learning to create tools that empower everyone to prevent, detect, and treat their disease. We are growing fast and we are hiring in many areas; and I have several openings for Recent Grads in my group. Our group builds the lower layers for the Research Platform used by all … Continue reading Job Opportunities for Recent Graduates at our Freenome Research Platform →
Sometimes it is easy to forget that your job and your career are two different things. Your job is what you do for your employer. Your career is the path that will get your through a sequence of jobs to achieve your personal goals. Your career will be influenced by events outside of your control, … Continue reading You, your Career and BioTech →
Change is Good! The acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle Corp closed 11 years ago, on Jan 27th, 2010, 9 months after it was first announced. I had been at Sun for many years and I really liked what I was doing but, in hindsight, the acquisition forced me to accept change, and that was … Continue reading Change is Good – 11 years after Sun Microsystems →
A list of Freenome people writing about Freenome events and content. Freenome/Blog A collection of links to blog posts from Freenome people about Freenome… Picnic 2018 – Working at Freenome: Sometimes it’s a picnic! Back to the future with the Freenome Holiday Party Freenome’s 3rd Annual Picnic: Team building with bubbles! Uniting in Monterey for … Continue reading Freenome Bloggers →
A collection of links to and extracts from public information on CRC and Freenome (last updated on Feb 14, 2021). Also see similar post collections on Social Topics, and Technology/Science. Disclaimer: I am a Software guy, barely beginning to learn the Biology side of all this :). Plus this post is WiP From Wikipedia: “Colorectal … Continue reading CRC and Freenome →
Freenome is hiring! The mission can’t be better… The technology stack is mostly Python in the back-end, on K8s and GCP (et al.), and React in the front-end. I’ll provide more insight as I ramp up in 2021 but you can look at the openings in the Freenome career’s page. There are two relevant groups … Continue reading Freenome is Hiring! →
Today (Dec 28th), I started at Freenome. Freenome is developing and productizing a Multiomics platform for early cancer detection. The tag line is “Spot the pattern, treat the cancer“. Multiomics means doing analysis on data from multiple “omes“, i.e. using fragments of DNA, RNA, proteins and other biomarkers from blood plasma. The first study is … Continue reading … and now at Freenome! →
A delayed news update … I left CloudBees last month. It was a great journey. We started with a basic concept, a very small team and somewhat limited experience with modern SaaS. We ended with two multi-featured products (DevOptics and SDM), on AWS and GCP, in a multi-region team, releasing in a CI/CD workflow using … Continue reading CloudBees – Time to move on! →
Hot off the press: you can now model your value stream and track your deployment frequency using the Free Plan for CloudBees DevOptics. We released this new functionality as part of the ramp-up to next week’s DevOps World | Jenkins World San Francisco. There are two main new aspects: an improved, and free, value stream … Continue reading Modeling Value Streams using DevOptics Free Plan →