Tora Sirkka
Software Engineer at Bloomberg LP
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTora Sirkka is a software and biotech engineer with nine years of experience across software and biotech, including seven years in industrial R&D, currently applying backend software excellence at Bloomberg LP in New York. She blends deep expertise in Python, SQL, AWS, and cloud services with a hands-on background in biotechnology, experimental design, and data analytics to accelerate research cycles and enable new experiments. Prior roles at Corning included leading cross-functional teams, defining milestones for smart optical devices, and doubling the number of health/life science product ideas evaluated, illustrating her ability to translate science into scalable software solutions. She also managed multi-disciplinary R&D programs at RISE, securing funding and delivering prototype systems within tight timelines. Trained at Hackbright Academy, she combines software engineering with scientific rigor, reinforced by an MS in Biotechnology and a BS in Biotechnology from Chalmers. Based in New York, she collaborates effectively with stakeholders from board-level to field engineers, turning ambiguous requirements into practical, auditable software and experimental workflows.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Hackbright AcademyMaster of Science - MS, Biotechnology, Master of Science - MS, Biotechnology at Chalmers University of Technology
Swedish, English, Finnish
Github Skills (3)
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
torasirkka/torasirkka.github.io
Sep 2016 - Apr 2022
Contributions:7 pushes in 5 years 7 months
torasirkka/pod-transcript-search
Jun 2021 - Feb 2022
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Contributions:105 commits, 6 PRs, 34 pushes in 8 months
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