Abby Vander Linden
Scientific Data Curation Engineer
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAbby Vander Linden is a Scientific Data Curation Engineer with 11 years of experience bridging biology and bioinformatics to make high-dimensional biomedical datasets findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable. She led data curation for the AD Knowledge Portal at Sage Bionetworks, developing metadata standards, ingestion pipelines, and tooling to enable multi-omics investigations of Alzheimer’s disease and interoperability across repositories. Trained as a research biologist and PhD in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Abby pairs hands-on experience with 3D imaging and R-based analysis with production-grade data engineering practices. She’s passionate about federated data, reproducible public datasets, and small productivity wins—like niche VSCode extensions—that smooth researchers’ workflows. Now at Mirador Therapeutics, she applies that domain fluency to accelerate translational research by ensuring trusted, well-attributed data is readily usable.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Biology, Bachelor of Science - BS, Biology at University of WashingtonDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at University of Massachusetts Amherst
Github Skills (22)
derived10
sage10
react-component9
project-configuration9
amp-ad9
vcenter9
dictionary8
metadata8
portal7
validation7
monorepo6
snowflake6
json-schema5
monitoring4
docker-image4
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Sage-Bionetworks/synapseAnnotations
Jan 2021 - Jan 2023
Sage Bionetworks derived standards for annotating content in Synapse.
Contributions:89 reviews, 273 commits, 179 PRs in 2 years
sagederivedsage-bionetworksstandardssynapse
Sage-Bionetworks/cleanAD
Feb 2021 - Dec 2024
Tools for cleaning and organizing study data for the AD Knowledge Portal.
Contributions:15 reviews, 15 PRs, 26 pushes in 3 years 10 months
cleaningorganizingportalknowledge
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