About Me
Building the infrastructure behind reliable, reproducible, and high performance research and development.
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Developer in Statistical Metagenomics
My position with the Penn-CHOP Microbiome Program has honed my software development skills and expanded my knowledge about bioinformatics and statistics. It has also shown me how to have an outsized impact on research and development on the basis of my unique skillset, namely driving software standards, encouraging well structured data/metadata, and building the infrastructure to support it.
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Lead Developer for Nightly
This was where I experienced for the first time seeing something missing from the world and then creating a product to fill that gap. Before this, all my projects had been academic, the ends were just themselves and I knew they had been done before. After, I started to see every bad UX, every missing feature or platform, as opportunities and as gaps that I could conceivably fill. This was also the first time I had to take on the role of a product owner and spend more of my time thinking about the user experience than working out bugs.
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Graduated Carleton College
Physics Major.
GPA: 3.66.
Two years as captain of DIII frisbee team (best finish 3rd at nationals) and two years as head of the standup group.
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Internship at HPE
At HPE I got to experience working with a Scrum team for the first time. Unlike with many other interns, my manager, after some training and certification, put me right to work as a member of the team which was awesome for so many reasons. I got to learn first hand how Scrum teams work (and sometimes don't work), both the theory and the practice of large scale data pipelines, and how to approach each unit of development work with the dual focuses of how to make it work in a vacuum and have it effectively integrate into the larger system.
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Internship at Owl Labs
This internship was my first experience with a professional software environment. And it taught me a lot of skills that I now take for granted such as how to work at the command line, how to use git, and how to apply a testing framework to a large codebase.
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Graduated Marblehead High School
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Internship at HepatoChem
I was fortunate to spend two summers and a winter of high school working with the awesome biochemists of HepatoChem. It was here that I first gained experience with lab work (just a little bit), practical database implementation, and the importance of good information infrastructure for inventory management. They were using Excel for all of their order and inventory management when I arrived and I was able to create a simple Access database that could handle the same tasks and compile safety data sheets for each kit. That system is still in use today.
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I was born
Self explanatory.