Sandra Karcher
Scientist at Rancho BioSciences
Greater Pittsburgh Region United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSandra Karcher is a versatile scientist and environmental data engineer with nine years of experience turning complex data into actionable insights for environmental engineering and biomedical informatics. She combines licensed environmental engineering credentials with IT expertise spanning software design, web development, data modeling, governance, ETL, data quality control, and visualization. In her current roles as Scientist at Rancho BioSciences and CEO of The Savii Group, she leads database design and data workflow optimization, including PostgreSQL development under SEND standards and building consolidated SQL views via Dremio. Her prior work at the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University includes building Django/Python data tools, establishing data governance, and contributing to publications on nanomaterial data integration and visualization. Based in the Greater Pittsburgh region, she operates at the intersection of academia and industry, delivering auditable, scalable data systems that support evidence-based management decisions.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Maryland, College ParkBiomedical Informatics Certificate, Biomedical Informatics, Biomedical Informatics Certificate, Biomedical Informatics at University of PittsburghDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Civil Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Civil Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (10)
database-server9
database5
javascript4
gene-expression4
bioinformatics2
jupyter-notebook2
notebook2
labeling1
visualization1
jupyter1
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
sandra444/mps-web-client
Mar 2018 - Sep 2021
Microphysiology Project Web Client
Contributions:12 PRs, 23 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 7 months
linked-open-datajavascriptbiologyweb-clientweb-project
sandra444/mps-database-server
Nov 2017 - Sep 2021
Microphysiology Project Database Server
Contributions:55 PRs, 429 pushes, 34 branches in 3 years 11 months
databasedatabase-server
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