Ami Moonshine
Founding Member, Senior Data Scientist
Greater Boston United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAmi Moonshine is a founding member and Senior Data Scientist with 13 years of experience blending computational biology, genomics methods development, and startup product-building in the Greater Boston area. She designed and implemented production-ready variant-calling pipelines for RNA-seq at the Broad Institute’s GATK team and now applies that rigor to data-driven products at Nift Networks. Trained as a PhD structural bioinformatician, she brings deep algorithmic and modeling expertise—from hydrogen-bond energy functions to large-scale sequence-based function prediction—to practical genomics and ML problems. Her background spans academia and industry, including postdoctoral work on active learning for protein function and teaching large algorithms courses, reflecting strong communication and mentorship skills. Known for translating complex bioinformatics methods into robust, usable pipelines, she thrives at the intersection of research-grade methods and product engineering.
14 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at Ben-Gurion UniversityBachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Hebrew, English
Github Skills (9)
genome10
genomics10
gatk10
sequencing10
science9
bioinformatics9
spark9
command-line-tool7
java6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
Ogwee/R
May 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:1 PR, 4 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
broadgsa/gatk-protected
Jul 2012 - Sep 2015
Official code repository for GATK versions 1.0 through 3.7 (full licensed package). For GATK 4 code, see the https://github.com/broadinstitute/gatk repository
Contributions:115 commits in 3 years 2 months
gatk
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