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# experience

Experience

The short version of where I have worked, studied, and taught. I have moved between research, industry, and the classroom, and kept building tools the whole way.

## work experience

  1. PhD Candidate

    Center for Genomics and Data Science, UAB, Birmingham, AL · Aug 2022 - Present

    Single-nuclei and multi-omics analysis of NF1-associated tumor models, and the shortlist of existing drugs worth testing against them. Caught and validated sample contamination in 3′ datasets with the platform vendor, and built and deployed 5+ Shiny apps on UAB infrastructure for visualization, sample tracking, and multi-omics exploration.

  2. Software Engineering Intern

    Posit, Boston, MA (remote) · May 2026 - Aug 2026

    On the Shiny team in Posit's Open Source group. Owned five packages across R, Python, and JavaScript: biobouncer, biohttp, bioclients, biocohort, and plotomics. Built more than ten apps, mostly for computational biology and bioinformatics, and contributed seven merged pull requests to Shiny, shinyreact, and htmltools.

  3. Human Genetics gRED Intern

    Genentech, South San Francisco, CA · Jun 2025 - Aug 2025

    Built MOLV, a Shiny platform and R package for locus-first visualization in Alzheimer's disease, across 11,000+ GWAS, eQTL, pQTL, single-cell, and ATAC-seq datasets. Worked with scientists and engineers to fit it into secure internal systems, and presented it to the Human Genetics department.

## education

  1. Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering & Bioinformatics

    University of Alabama at Birmingham

  2. Certificate, Translation of Biomedical Innovation to Clinical Practice

    University of Alabama at Birmingham

## honors & awards

  • Claude Science Hackathon, one of 500 participants selected globally (2026)
  • Google Cloud Research Credit Award, Google (2026)
  • Elected Member, Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society, UAB (2025)
  • Blazer Graduate Research Fellowship, UAB (2022 - 2023)
  • Professional Development & Travel Awards, UAB CCTS & UAB GSG (2022 - 2024)

## memberships

  • American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), Student Member (2024 - Present)

## teaching & leadership

  • Certified Instructor, The Carpentries (2024 - Present). Taught workshops on R, Git, Bash, and Python at UAB's Biological Data Science Core.
  • President, Informatics Club, UAB (2023 - 2025). Grew computational training across departments through workshops, peer-learning sessions, and professional-development seminars.
  • Mentor, STEM-Away. Gave a talk and live demo on containerized bioinformatics and deploying R Shiny apps on AWS.