Software Development & Workflow Orchestration

• Lead developer of Funnel, a workflow orchestration toolkit that executes genomic analysis tasks across cloud and HPC environments through a standard task-execution API, enabling scalable, autonomous data processing for research pipelines.
• Wrote the Kubernetes deployment templates (Helm charts) used to deploy the lab’s data commons and analysis services into production.
• Built a Nextflow plugin integrating the GA4GH Task Execution API, allowing existing genomic workflows to run against multiple execution backends without rewriting pipeline code.
• Contributed to Gen3-Workflow, the workflow execution service used by the Gen3 data commons platform to run researcher-submitted analysis jobs.

Cloud Infrastructure & DevOps

• Built and scaled cloud-native infrastructure and CI/CD systems across AWS, Azure, and OpenStack, including automated service provisioning and backup/restore procedures.
• Deployed status monitors and a real-time dashboards for tracking the system health and availability of the lab’s services.
• Helped develop the DRS Downloader, a data transfer tool implementing the GA4GH Data Repository Service standard to move data between cloud storage systems and local research environments.

• Integrated RESTful APIs for use in authenticating clients during online checkouts.
• Set up and managed hosting and SSL certification for On the Sensations of Tone.

Furthered development of the Java Swing desktop application used to curate data for Reactome, an open-source database and visualizer of biological pathways used for research.

• Implemented a custom class to flag pathway and reaction revisions between varying data sets.
• Added new UI/UX features based upon communication with users and research database curators.
• Updated API calls and data processing for REACH, a remote natural-language-processing document parser used to extract pathway information from published literature.