Justine Larsen
Senior Manager, Software Engineering at Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolJustine Larsen is a senior software engineering leader in the San Francisco Bay Area with a full-stack background and six years of formal experience scaling teams and shipping user-facing web and mobile applications. Currently leading engineering for science-focused user applications at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, she has built imaging and cell-science platforms—including the CryoET Data Portal, CellxGene, and Virtual Cell Platform—that support large-scale biological research. She has repeatedly grown and led high-performing teams (e.g., expanding an imaging team from 1 to 11 engineers and contractors) and blends hands-on engineering with hiring, performance management, and cross-functional stakeholder alignment. Her technical strengths include application and database design, AI-enabled application development, and architecting systems that handle massive multi-channel microscopy images. Past roles at Roche and numerous enterprise clients show a track record of turning complex imaging workflows into production tools that improve diagnostics and research. Known for quickly absorbing new technologies, she enjoys solving societally impactful problems alongside talented, multidisciplinary teams.
6 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BS Business Entrepreneurship, BS Business Entrepreneurship at Rowan University
Github Skills (14)
image-viewer10
visualization10
segmentation10
python10
imaging10
denoising10
numpy9
microscopy9
machine-learning9
deep-learning8
portal5
datasets3
heuristics2
console1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
justinelarsen/napari
Apr 2020 - Apr 2020
napari: a fast, interactive, multi-dimensional image viewer for python
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 day
multi-dimensionalpythonimageimage-viewerdimensional
chanzuckerberg/napari-hub
Mar 2021 - Oct 2025
Discover, install, and share napari plugins
Contributions:153 reviews, 144 comments, 2 issues in 4 years 7 months
pythonimagingdataminingnapari-pluginbioimaging
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