Ariel Balter
Data Analyst
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAriel Balter is a data analyst and Ph.D. physicist with 11 years of experience applying biomedical data science, bioinformatics, and biostatistics to real-world problems. She has a strong track record building and optimizing analysis and ETL pipelines on HPC clusters and cloud platforms, cutting runtimes by orders of magnitude and improving reproducibility through better package and workflow management. Ariel led integration of large-scale genomic datasets into graph databases for ML-driven oncology research and has practical experience deploying bioinformatics pipelines in Google Cloud. Based in Portland, she also directs a nonprofit supporting autistic adults, where she rapidly secured significant grant funding and developed state partnerships—an uncommon blend of technical depth and community leadership. Colleagues rely on her for mentoring in R, HPC, and reproducible research practices that turn complex data into actionable insight.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BS Physics, BS Physics at The Evergreen State CollegePhD Physics, PhD Physics at Indiana University BloomingtonAAS Computer Science, AAS Computer Science at Columbia Basin College
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Github Skills (200)
data-manipulation10
knitr10
chat10
svg10
theia10
command-line-tool10
operating-system10
htmlwidgets10
multi-window10
draw10
jupyterlab-extension10
webrtc10
html5-canvas10
grammar10
notebook10
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
abalter/polyglottus
Feb 2018 - Mar 2018
Contributions:41 commits, 2 PRs, 33 pushes in 29 days
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AttoWeb/attoweb.org
Apr 2018 - May 2022
Contributions:48 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 1 month
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