about
I'm a bioinformatician and software engineer with a PhD in microbiology. I'm interested in bringing good design to bioinformatics by architecting reliable, scalable software and producing clear, user-friendly outputs that simplify scientists’ workflows. I enjoy writing everything from core algorithms to production pipeline code to frontend visualizations. In addition to 8 years of bioinformatics expertise, I have about 15 years at the bench, which allows me to intimately understand the needs of wetlab scientists.
Previously I did my PhD in the at the University of Texas at Austin. I studied the evolution of engineered plasmids among other topics. Prior to that, I researched in several labs at the Univeristy of Michigan. I studied vibrio/phage dynamics in the , novel antimicrobials in the , and functional bacterial amyloid production in the .
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2023
Bioinformatics Lead
Plasmidsaurus- •designed company-wide bioinformatics compute architecture, which scaled to millions of samples
- •setup and maintained a global HPC cluster using Slurm, AWS, Ansible, and Docker
- •created intuitive, customer-facing bioinformatics reports
- •helped build out team of bioinformaticians by leading interviews and training new hires
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2022
Bioinformatician
Plasmidsaurus- •developed full-stack genomic assembly pipelines from raw reads to delivering automated reports to customers
- •merged all bioinformatics codebases during merger event
- •ensured robustness by implementing cloud+on-premise CI/CD for bioinformatics codebases
- •reduced bioinformatics pipeline runtime from ~1.5 hours to ~3 minutes
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2017
PhD•Microbiology
University of Texas- •studied the evolution of engineered plasmids