About

I am a motivated software developer seeking to expand my technical skill set and work on interesting projects. I love collaborative workplaces and have experience leading development on small interdisciplinary teams.

I have extensive experience using Python for web applications, APIs, bioinformatics tools, and production packaging. I strive for well-tested and elegant code. I am adept at developing and managing DevOps on AWS cloud infrastructure.

I graduated summa cum laude from Colby College in 2016 with a degree in computational biology. Immediately afterwards, I started working in the Park Lab at Harvard Medical School. While there, I fully transitioned from science to software and haven’t looked back. I also earned a Graduate Certificate in Data Science from the Harvard Extension school.

Projects

Coming soon! See my GitHub page in the meantime.

Work Experience

For the past 3.5 years, I have worked on the 4DN-DCIC team in the Park Lab at Harvard Medical School. Over my time there, I was promoted multiple times and tasked with leading back-end development and DevOps for the team. Please see my resume for more details.

Before working at Harvard, I was a Research Fellow at the competitive Summer Student Program at the Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, ME (2015). There I worked on identifying enriched variants associated with Alzheimer’s disease. As part of my project, I adapted a web application to view these variants.

In college, I graded and tutored for the introductory computer science course at Colby College (2014 - 2016). I was also a research assistant for a concussion diagnosis project at Colby (2012 - 2014). Before that, I spent summers working as a molecular biology research assistant at Norwich University (2011 - 2013).

Publications

I have accumulated a number of co-authorships on peer-reviewed publications over my years in academia. Topics include software engineering, bioinformatics, and molecular biology.

Reiff SB, et al. The 4D Nucleome Data Portal as a resource for searching and visualizing curated nucleomics data. Nature Communications. 2022
Lee S, et al. Pairs and Pairix: a file format and a tool for efficient storage and retrieval for Hi-C read pairs. Bioinformatics. 2022
Lee S, et al. Tibanna: software for scalable execution of portable pipelines on the cloud. Bioinformatics. 2019
Lodato MA, et al. Aging and neurodegeneration are associated with increased mutations in single human neurons. Science. 2018
Sherman MA, Barton AR, et al. PaSD-qc: quality control for single cell whole-genome sequencing data using using power spectral density estimation. Nucleic Acids Research. 2018
Doczi MA, Vitzthum CM, Forehand CJ. Developmental expression of Kv1 voltage-gated potassium channels in the avian hypothalamus. Neurosci Lett. 2016
Hinkle KL, et al. Exposure to the lampricide 3-trifluoromethyl-4-nitrophenol results in increased expression of carbohydrate transporters in S. cerevisiae. Environ Toxicol Chem. 2015

Personal Interests

Outside of the workplace, I am an avid Ultimate Frisbee player. I have played since high school and most recently co-captained a team that won 1st place in the Fall 2019 BUDA tournament.

I am also interested in fitness and weight lifting. The intersection of software and these topics appeals to me, and some day I hope to apply my engineering and data science knowledge to help people optimize the way they approach fitness and health.

Board games and strategy video games are also a passion of mine, so on the side I spend time playing and designing those. I am a formidable opponent in Settlers of Catan or Dominion. I also anticipate spending a lot of time on the remastered Warcraft III: Reforged when it comes out.