Our Team
Amy Andrychowicz
Senior Software Engineer
Email: amy@entagen.com
Erik Bakke
Senior Software Engineer
Email: erik.bakke@entagen.com
Erik is a Senior Software Engineer at Entagen and works out of the Minneapolis, MN office. He began his career in 2008 working extensively with enterprise Java projects. Coupling that experience with a history of building web-based applications, Erik embraced the Groovy/Grails framework. His interests include rich, usable interfaces and emerging semantic technologies. He maintains a connection to the next generation of engineers by volunteering as mathematics tutor for K-12 students.
Ola Bildtsen
Technical Lead
Email: ola@entagen.com
Ola is a Senior Software Engineer at Entagen and works out of the Minneapolis, MN office. He has a strong background in rich UI technologies, particularly Adobe's Flash/Flex frameworks and also has extensive experience with Java and Groovy/Grails building web-based applications. Ola has been working with Java since 1996, and has been in a technical leadership role for the past 7 years -- the last 4 of those focused in the Groovy/Grails space. He has a strong background in Java web security and is the author of a Grails security plugin (Stark Security). Ola holds a BA in Computer Science from Amherst College, and a MS in Software Engineering from the University of Minnesota.
Christopher MLS Bouton, Ph.D.
Chief Executive Officer
Email: chris@entagen.com
Dr. Bouton received his BA in Neuroscience (Magna Cum Laude) from Amherst College in 1996 and his Ph.D in Molecular Neurobiology from Johns Hopkins University in 2001. Between 2001 and 2004 Dr. Bouton worked as a computational biologist at LION Bioscience Research Inc. and Aveo Pharmaceuticals, leading the microarray data analysis functions at both companies. In 2004 he accepted the position of Head of Integrative Data Mining for Pfizer and led a group of Ph.D. level scientists conducting research in the areas of computational biology, systems biology, knowledge engineering, software development, machine learning and large-scale ‘omics data analysis. While at Pfizer, Dr. Bouton conceived of and implemented an organization-wide wiki called Pfizerpedia for which he won the prestigious 2007 William E. Upjohn Award in Innovation. In 2008 Dr. Bouton assumed the position of CEO at Entagen (http://www.entagen.com), a biotechnology company that provides computational research, analysis and custom software development services for biomedical organizations. Dr. Bouton is an author on over a dozen scientific papers and book chapters and his work has been covered in a number of industry news articles.
James Hardwick
Senior Software Engineer
Email: james.hardwick@entagen.com
James is a Software Engineering at Entagen and works primarily out of the Minneapolis, MN office. He began his career in 2006 working on a variety of enterprise Java projects. In 2009 he received his Masters Degree in Software Engineering from the University of Minnesota. While involved in the program James fell in love with Groovy & Grails thanks in part to a class taught by Mr. Michael Hugo himself. His core interests include rapidly building web-based applications utilizing the Groovy/Grails technology stack and more recently developing rich user interfaces with Javascript.
Michael Hugo
Technical Lead
Email: mike@entagen.com
Mike is a Senior Software Engineer at Entagen and works out of the Minneapolis, MN office. He has extensive experience with Groovy, Grails, Search and Semantic Web technologies. In addition to his expertise with these technologies he has more than seven years of enterprise Java web development, design, and technical leadership experience. He's the author of several Grails plugins (including Code Coverage, Liquibase Runner, Build Info and Hibernate Stats), has been a featured author in GroovyMag and makes regular presentations at developer’s meetings. Mike holds a Masters Degree in Software Engineering from the University of Minnesota and is an adjunct faculty member of the University of Minnesota Software Engineering Center.
Frans Lawaetz
System Architecture
Email: frans@entagen.com
Valerie Meyer
Software Testing
Email: valerie.meyer@entagen.com
Valerie is a Software Tester at Entagen and works out of the Minneapolis, MN office. She has 14 years of experience testing in the higher education, insurance and manufacturing industries. Valerie holds a Bachelor of Science Degree from the University of Minnesota.
Nguyen Nguyen
Senior Software Engineer
Email: nguyen@entagen.com
Meghan O’Donnell
Manager, Project Logistics and Marketing
Email: meghan.odonnell@entagen.com
Brian Repko
Senior Software Engineer
Email: brian.repko@entagen.com
Matt Sheehan
Senior Software Engineer
Email: matt.sheehan@entagen.com
Matt is a Senior Software Engineer at Entagen and works out of the Minneapolis, MN office. He has been building web applications with Java technologies for the past seven years, most recently using Groovy/Grails. He also has an extensive background with the design and development of rich, usable interfaces with JavaScript. Matt holds a Masters Degree in Software Engineering from the University of Minnesota.