David Konerding is a software engineer at Google Inc. working on distributed computing infrastructure. Previously, he was an Architect for Research Computing at Genentech and a Computer Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. David is passionate about computational biology and distributed computing and is constantly seeking for better ways to acquire and interpret biological data with applications to human health and medicine. He holds an undergraduate degree in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from UC Santa Cruz, a graduate degree in Biophysics from UC San Francisco, and was a postdoctoral scholar at UC Berkeley.