Chelsea Sawyer
Intermediate Software Developer
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolChelsea Sawyer is an intermediate software developer with nine years of experience building bioinformatics-focused web applications, pipelines, and databases across academic and industry settings. With an MSc in Bioinformatics, she has designed Nextflow workflows for large-scale NGS, led creation of an internal LIMS used by dozens of users, and built Django/Flask APIs that integrate with HPC clusters and third-party tools. Her strengths span Python, SQL (MySQL/Postgres), containerized deployments, and automation with Cron/Slurm, enabling reproducible data processing in high-throughput labs. Chelsea combines hands-on pipeline development with production web app delivery, having moved from bench-facing roles into developer-led tooling that accelerates research. Based in Ottawa, she brings both domain expertise in biology and practical engineering experience, including introducing team practices like branching models to improve collaboration.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Biology General, Bachelor's Degree Biology General at Carleton UniversityMaster’s Degree Bioinformatics, Master’s Degree Bioinformatics at Birkbeck, University of London
English
Github Skills (44)
nextflow10
pipeline10
sequencing10
bioinformatics10
genomics10
illumina10
nf-core10
immunology9
reproducible-science7
reproducible-research7
aws6
groovy6
slurm6
singularity6
linting5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
csawye01/nf-core-demultiplex
Mar 2019 - Mar 2020
Demultiplexing pipeline for sequencing data
Contributions:5 PRs, 173 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year
nextflow-pipelinesnf-coresinglecellpipelinesequencing-data
csawye01/BWA_aligner
Jun 2018 - Jul 2018
Contributions:34 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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