Courtney Shearer
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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SeniorCourtney Shearer is a research engineer with a decade of experience applying software engineering and bioinformatics to human genetics, currently visiting the Genomics Science Team at Google DeepMind. She holds a PhD in Systems, Synthetic, and Quantitative Biology from Harvard and previously drove genome assembly, annotation, and scalable variant-calling pipelines in industry roles at Zymergen and CRISPR Therapeutics. Courtney blends production-grade tooling (Docker, AWS, CWL) and research rigor—publishing ML-driven genomics work during undergrad and tokenizing the genome in personal projects—to translate sequence-driven models into impactful results. She has led teams and initiatives end-to-end, from founding Clemson’s largest student hackathon to serving as inaugural Scrum Master, evidencing both technical leadership and operational execution. Based in Cambridge, MA, she brings a rare mix of deep computational genetics, production software delivery, and hands-on experimentation bridging academia and industry.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (20)
genomes9
rna-seq9
biological-data-analysis8
genetic-algorithm8
bioinformatics8
feature-extraction7
algorithm6
bayesian5
deep-learning5
machine-learning5
typescript4
derivative3
tensorflow3
probabilistic-programming3
allocation3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
csheare/Personal-Website
May 2017 - Oct 2020
Contributions:18 PRs, 49 pushes, 6 branches in 3 years 5 months
csheare/ClemsonRunningClubSite
Aug 2017 - Sep 2019
Contributions:1 PR, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
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