Employment Experience

Software Engineer

23andMe

April 2017 - Present

• Builds internal web-based tools for our Research Team and Customer Care Team using Django, Python, and MySQL
• Works with a team of database administrators to manipulate relational database tables containing over 360 million rows using MySQL
• Designs and implements new features using test driven development

Engineering Research Assistant

23andMe

June 2015 - April 2017

• Used HTML, CSS and Sass to build and maintain landing pages that were mobile responsive and cross-browser compatible
• Created automated emails using Jinja templates per specifications from our Marketing Team
• Developed logic for YAML files that targeted web banners to specific subsets of 23andMe research participants

Microbiologist

US Centers for Disease Control

October 2013 - June 2015

• Sequenced the genome of Corynebacterium minutissimum, an opportunistic pathogen and the causative agent of erythrasma
• Contributed DNA sequence analysis of 16S rRNA and bacterial photography for MicrobeNet, a web-based tool for identification of microbial pathogens