Fenner Macrae
Senior Bioinformatics Engineer
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFenner Macrae is a Senior Bioinformatics Engineer in Portland with 10 years of experience building reproducible genomics pipelines, web applications, and automation tooling for clinical and research labs. He combines hands-on software engineering (Python, Flask, React, Postgres, Docker) with deep domain expertise in NGS and difficult-to-call genes, having QAed diverse assay data and driven variant-calling improvements. At Invitae he led automation and process-modernization efforts and transitioned into pure engineering work; he now continues that trajectory at Illumina. Fenner has a strong academic foundation from Reed College and a history of open, reproducible projects (including genome assembly and mutation-rate analyses) reflected on his GitHub. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex lab requirements into reliable, auditable software and pipelines that scale to clinical use.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Biology General, Bachelor's degree Biology General at Reed College
Github Skills (105)
autocomplete10
language-server-protocol10
vim-plugin10
vim10
lua10
rust-api10
linter10
window-manager10
htslib10
neovim-plugin10
neovim10
multiple-machines9
dataframes9
archlinux9
python9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
fennerm/flashfocus
Feb 2018 - Oct 2022
Simple focus animations for tiling window managers.
Contributions:12 reviews, 420 commits, 32 PRs in 4 years 8 months
window-manager
fennerm/fmbiopy
Aug 2017 - Dec 2018
Contributions:152 pushes, 1 branch, 97 issues in 1 year 3 months
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