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.
9 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 (141)
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language-server-protocol10
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rust-api10
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linting10
bam10
htslib10
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Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
fennerm/fmbiopy
Aug 2017 - Dec 2018
Contributions:152 pushes, 1 branch, 97 issues in 1 year 3 months
fennerm/arch-i3-novnc-docker
Feb 2018 - Jul 2022
Docker container with arch linux and i3wm
Contributions:11 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 5 months
linuxdockeri3wmarch-linuxdocker-container
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