Crystal Nguyen

Crystal Nguyen is a Senior Software Engineer in Laboratory Automation at Calico Life Sciences, where she builds the software that connects instruments, samples, and data throughout the lab. Her work covers instrument integration, system monitoring, and the developer and AI tooling her team runs on. Since joining in 2025, she has contributed broadly across Calico's automation stack, helping make operations more efficient, reliable, and reproducible. Earlier, she spent the better part of a decade bridging laboratory science and software in data- and process-engineering roles at Zymergen, Ginkgo Bioworks, and Mitra Chem, spanning biomanufacturing and advanced materials. She holds a B.S. in Bioengineering, with a minor in Mechanical Engineering, from the University of California, Berkeley.