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San Francisco, CA, US

San Francisco, California, US

• Collaborated with designers to visualize biological connectionsbetween entities stored on the electronic lab notebook. Built a UI,backend for computation, dashboards to monitor performance, andtest suite to avoid.
• Ideated and built workflow to convert biological data, helping usersonboard to newly supported biomolecules. Communicated frequentlywith engineers on other teams to identify the best conversionstrategy and establish.
• Implemented persistence and database layers for a new biologicalentity type. Iterated with product manager to parse concreterequirements from ambiguous areas in the specification. Wrote techplans to solicit feedback.

Emeryville, California, US

• Built pipelines that transform raw application data into actionable metrics on laboratory machine use, replacing four hours of manual calculations.
• Co-Designed and developed a label printing app for laboratory media. Built the front end and connected it to printing endpoints.

Emeryville, California, US

• Enhanced laboratory workflow software by adding processes that automatically detect the quality of wetlab measurements. Built a UI, backend, and test suite for each process.
• Improved stability of a Restful web service by consolidating business logic spread across multiple endpoints.
• Rewrote software tools collected from company scientists into production quality codebase.
• Addressed automatic alerts and user reported errors during on-call shifts by following runbooks, searching logs, and reading dashboards.

Emeryville, California, US

• Supported proprietary software by investigating user reported errors, escalating to relevant software teams, and prioritizing responses.
• Reduced spending by evaluating how Zymergen’s instance of a bioinformatics platform could be combined with one used at an acquired company.
• Maintained our team’s repository of scripts written to correct laboratory data and unblock workflows.
• Designed a workflow to simplify communication during software incidents. Used a script to assign handles for on-call engineers, slack channels to triage errors, and JIRA tickets to track follow up work.

Seattle, WA, US

Working part time to validate and further develop a fatty acid metabolic model developed during the summer of 2017.

New York, NY, US

• Collaborated as part of a 6 student team to build a device that improved intervertebral disk repair following discectomies
• Programmed and designed the electronic control system using Java-based Arduino IDE to code an Adafruit trinket microcontroller
• Communicated with surgeons and performed background research to ensure the device was commercially viable and met FDA regulatory standards

Ithaca, NY, US

• Facilitated a course in Cellular Engineering consisting of 80 undergraduate students and two other TAs
• Administered academic labs, hosted office hours, and graded assignments
• Prepared and organized labs that involved mammalian cell culture, ELISA assays, and growth curve evaluation

Seattle, WA, US

• Contributed to the NSR physiome project, an ongoing effort to create a comprehensive and accurate model of human physiology
• Completed a computational model of fatty acid metabolism in heart muscle cells using Java-based JSIM software and primary literature
• Learned and applied modeling techniques including validation using mass balance, sensitivity analysis, and parameter optimization

Ithaca, NY, US

• Quantified the phenotype of Laupala crickets sampled in an ongoing sexual selection study
• Performed cricket genotyping experiments that involved DNA extraction, restriction digest, and gel electrophoresis
• Modified extraction protocols to increase quality of recovered DNA

Reston, VA, US

• Learned and applied a variety of molecular protocols over the course of two summers to contribute to ongoing biological studies
• Ran and adjusted acrylamide electrophoresis gels to design and test PCR primers for common eider ducks
• Banded Snow Geese during week of field work on the Alaska North Slope to analyze changing migratory routes of arctic birds

Masters Of Engineering, Biomedical Engineering

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Biology