Candace Savonen
Bioinformatics Data Engineer
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
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Top SchoolCandace Savonen is a bioinformatics data engineer with eight years of experience building reproducible biomedical data pipelines across academia, non-profit, and industry settings in the Washington DC–Baltimore area. She has advanced from graduate research on methylation and neurotoxic susceptibility to applied roles at Alex's Lemonade Stand, Johns Hopkins, Fred Hutch, and now Synthesize Bio, translating complex genomics and clinical datasets into robust, shareable analyses. Known for championing reproducibility, she blends strong domain knowledge in neuroscience and biology with practical data-science tooling to make results auditable and reusable. Her background working with postmortem human brain data and childhood cancer consortia gives her a nuanced understanding of sensitive, high-impact biomedical data.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Biology, General, Bachelor's degree, Biology, General at Oakland UniversityMaster's degree, Neuroscience, Master's degree, Neuroscience at Michigan State University
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Github Skills (147)
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
jhudsl/reproducible-R-example
Oct 2021 - Mar 2025
A template example of a reproducible analysis in R as discussed in the https://github.com/jhudsl/Reproducibility_in_Cancer_Informatics course.
Contributions:1 review, 3 PRs, 16 pushes in 3 years 5 months
reproducible-analysisreproducibilityreproduciblecancer
jhudsl/Machine_Learning_for_Cancer_Informatics
Nov 2021 - Jan 2025
Contributions:2 PRs, 21 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 2 months
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