Andrew Thrasher
Staff Software Engineer at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Greater Asheville United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Thrasher is a Staff Software Engineer with a Ph.D. in Computer Science and over a decade of experience building scalable bioinformatics and genomics platforms. He has led core engineering efforts at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital—helping develop clinical sequencing pipelines and overseeing the Genomics Group for the St. Jude Cloud publication—while also contributing to national-scale climate assessment work. Comfortable across Perl, Python, SQL, shell scripting and .NET, he specializes in turning distributed-computing research into production-grade pipelines that impact patient care and large scientific collaborations. His career blends rigorous academic research with hands-on production engineering, enabling cross-disciplinary collaboration between biologists and computer scientists. Based in Greater Asheville, Andrew brings both deep domain expertise in genomics and a track record of shipping reproducible, scalable solutions for high-stakes scientific environments.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, B.A., Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics at Anderson UniversityMaster of Science (M.S.), Computer Science and Engineering, Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science and Engineering at University of Notre Dame
Github Skills (90)
bioinformatics-workflow10
genomics10
computational-biology10
next-generation-sequencing10
rna-seq10
r-package10
rust-crates10
sequencing10
wdl10
cromwell10
driver10
bioinformatics10
fastq-files9
workflow-description-language9
network-analysis9
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
adthrasher/miniwdl-lsf
Jan 2023 - Dec 2025
LSF backend for miniwdl
Contributions:4 releases, 8 PRs, 17 pushes in 2 years 11 months
backend
adthrasher/github-actions-continuous-delivery
Nov 2019 - May 2021
Contributions:8 reviews, 1 PR, 8 pushes in 1 year 6 months
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