I've always been interested in how computing can serve human endeavor. My academic background is evolutionary biology, well served by computational methods.
I currently work at Sema4 GeneDx on the production bioinformatics team. There I help author, run, and maintain HIPAA-compliant HPC-local and cloud-native DNA sequence analysis pipelines and related infrastructure. I also lend my bioinformatics expertise to other software developers and engineers from whom I learn the latest and best CI/CD and AWS/Azure practices in a production enviornment.
Previously I worked at the Yale Center for Research Computing (YCRC). There I helped researchers accelerate their computational work, often on Yale's high performance computing infrastructure. To this end, I consulted with researchers one-on-one, adapted and designed short workshops, and contributed to the YCRC docs and tools. At Yale I had the pleasure of collaborating on a diverse set of projects. They ranged from supporting a digital classroom environment for YData123 to working in Casey Dunn's lab on an IoT equipment monitoring project and a phlogenetics manuscript.