James Scherer
Software Developer III - Genomics at UAB Marnix E. Heersink School of Medicine
Birmingham, Alabama, United States
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Top SchoolJames Scherer is a software developer with 11 years of experience focused on genomics and healthcare IT, currently advancing genomic applications at UAB's Heersink School of Medicine. He brings full-stack expertise—Vue micro-frontends, FastAPI/Fastify, MongoDB, GraphQL—and DevOps proficiency with OpenStack, Docker, Ansible, and Terraform, plus native iOS experience in Swift/Objective-C. His background spans consulting and product delivery, from hospital performance improvement and grant-funded public health programs to shipping App Store apps and mentoring junior engineers. James combines technical depth with operational sense, translating clinical workflow needs into maintainable, production-grade systems. A non-obvious strength is his cross-disciplinary foundation in psychology and literacy program leadership, which informs his user-centered UX and stakeholder collaboration.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Engineering at The City College of New YorkMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at University of Alabama at BirminghamAssociate of Science - AS General Studies, Associate of Science - AS General Studies at McHenry County CollegeBachelor's degree Psychology, Bachelor's degree Psychology at Northern Illinois University
Github Skills (1)
data-science7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
uab-cgds-worthey/rosalution
Jan 2022 - Mar 2023
Rosalution assists researchers study genetic variation 🧬 in patients 🧑🏾🤝🧑🏼 by helping select candidate animal models 🐀🐁🐠🪱 to replicate the variation to further research to derive, diagnose, and provide therapies for ultra-rare diseases. Developed by the UAB Center for Computational Genomics and Data Science (CGDS).
Contributions:166 reviews, 409 commits, 81 PRs in 1 year 1 month
data-science
JmScherer/CitiBikeApp
Jan 2016 - Nov 2018
Contributions:8 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 11 months
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