Technical Leadership

• Worked directly with research groups and GA4GH standards partners to turn researcher needs into platform requirements and delivery plans.
• Led design and code review on a 3-person engineering team and mentored 2 junior developers on Go, Kubernetes, and GA4GH standards.
• Lead developer of Funnel: owned the architecture, roadmap, and release process, shipping 5+ releases and setting the direction for its storage, compute, and database backends.

Distributed Systems & Workflow Orchestration

• Built and maintained Funnel, a Go service that schedules and executes genomic analysis tasks across Kubernetes, cloud, and HPC backends through the GA4GH Task Execution API; processed ~40 TB of genomic data in production. Replaced its manual Kubernetes install with a published Helm chart and added a PostgreSQL backend.
• Designed and built nf-ga4gh, a Nextflow plugin that lets existing genomic pipelines run on any TES backend without code changes; together with Funnel, adopted by 10+ research groups outside OHSU.
• Partnered with CTDS (University of Chicago) on Gen3-Workflow, building its Funnel execution layer: a Kubernetes Job per TES task in a shared multi-tenant namespace, per-task S3-backed volumes (AWS S3 CSI driver) shared across nodes, and a gRPC plugin that injects each user’s Gen3 S3 credentials so the server never stores user tokens.

Cloud Platform & Reliability

• Built and ran the Kubernetes platform (Helm, Terraform, kubeadm) for the lab’s data commons and analysis services across AWS, Azure, and OpenStack.
• Built the CI/CD pipelines, automated provisioning, and Postgres/Elasticsearch backup, restore, and migration procedures, cutting deploy time by 30%.
• Added monitoring, alerting, and status dashboards for production services, maintaining 99.9% uptime.

• Integrated REST APIs for client authentication at checkout; set up hosting and TLS for a client site (On the Sensations of Tone).

• Developed and maintained personal open-source projects, including mdbook-latex, a backend for mdBook that converts Markdown sources to LaTeX and PDF.

• Built features for Reactome’s Java curation tool with direct input from curators; updated its integration with REACH, an NLP service that extracts pathway data from literature.