# 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.
Download résumé (PDF) ↓## work experience
Software Engineering Intern
Posit · May to Aug 2026
On the Shiny team in Posit's Open Source group. Built more than ten apps and four packages across R, Python, and JavaScript, mostly for computational biology and bioinformatics, and contributed to Shiny and shinyreact.
Human Genetics gRED Intern
Genentech, South San Francisco · Jun to Aug 2025
Built a Shiny platform and R package for locus-centered visualization across 11,000+ GWAS, eQTL, pQTL, single-cell, and ATAC-seq datasets in Alzheimer's disease. Worked with scientists and engineers to fit it into secure internal systems and presented it to the Human Genetics department.
Graduate Research Assistant
Center for Genomics and Data Science, UAB · Aug 2022 to present
Single-nuclei and multi-omics analysis of NF1-associated tumor models to find testable hypotheses for drug repurposing. Caught and validated sample contamination in 3′ datasets with 10x Genomics, and built and deployed 5+ Shiny apps on UAB infrastructure for visualization, sample tracking, and multi-omics exploration.
Business Development Fellow
Bill L. Harbert Institute for Innovation & Entrepreneurship (HIIE), UAB · Dec 2023 to present
Assessed the commercial potential of 12 UAB technologies and prepared licensing materials. Automated internal workflows with Power Automate and the Microsoft Graph API.
Chief Technical Officer
FundU Games Pvt. Ltd., Delhi · 2021 to 2022
Led an 8-person team building a FinTech product with React, Node.js, R Shiny, MongoDB, and Docker. Ran the AWS setup and helped secure initial funding.
Bioinformatics Engineer
STEM-Away · Jun 2021 to Aug 2022
Mentored international student teams and developed bioinformatics course materials and app templates.
## education
Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering & Bioinformatics
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Certificate, Translation of Biomedical Innovation to Clinical Practice
University of Alabama at Birmingham
## honors & awards
- Google Cloud Research Credit Award, Google (2026)
- Elected Member, Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society, UAB (2025)
- Student Member, American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) (2024 to present)
- Blazer Graduate Research Fellowship, UAB (2022 to 2023)
- Professional Development & Travel Awards, UAB CCTS & UAB GSG (2022 to 2024)
## teaching & leadership
- Certified Instructor, The Carpentries (2024 to present). Taught workshops on R, Git, Bash, and Python at UAB's Biological Data Science Core.
- President, Informatics Club, UAB (2023 to 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.