Emily Soth
Software Developer at Natural Capital Project
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEmily Soth is a software developer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with seven years of experience building tools at the intersection of bioinformatics, GIS, and environmental science. Currently at Natural Capital Project, she applies full-stack and Python skills to production software that supports ecological research and decision-making. Her background includes contributing to Dockstore and improving documentation for the popular Toil workflow engine, demonstrating attention to reproducible, scalable scientific workflows and clear developer guidance. Emily’s academic training in bioinformatics with a CS minor and hands-on fieldwork with the Washington Conservation Corps give her a practical, multidisciplinary approach to solving data-heavy environmental problems.
7 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
University of California Santa Cruz
Github Skills (4)
documentation10
python9
workflow-engine8
workflow-description-language7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
DataBiosphere/toil
Oct 2018 - Nov 2018
A scalable, efficient, cross-platform (Linux/macOS) and easy-to-use workflow engine in pure Python.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:30 commits, 5 PRs, 13 pushes in 29 days
Contributions summary:Emily's commits primarily focused on improving the project's documentation. They added job store arguments to examples in various documentation files. Further contributions include fixing punctuation, spelling, references, and typos in multiple documentation sections, enhancing clarity and readability. The edits encompass various aspects of the project's documentation, including command-line options, cloud cluster utilities, and WDL usage.
pythoncommon-workflow-languagemesosawsslurm
ucsc-cgp/sync-agile-boards
Feb 2019 - Jun 2019
Synchronize tickets between ZenHub and Jira
Contributions:1 release, 23 PRs, 120 pushes in 3 months
ticket-managementzenhubjirasynchronize
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