Janet Dewar
Visiting Scientist at Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolJanet Dewar is a seasoned software engineer and visiting scientist with 13 years of experience building backend systems for research and enterprise environments, currently based in Massachusetts. She has held principal and senior engineering roles at the Broad Institute, Fuze, and the New York Genome Center, and now combines research-focused development with product engineering at Manifold. Janet contributed to the widely used Cromwell workflow engine, enhancing its Azure TES backend to support user identity, secret retrieval, and robust unit testing—work that bridges scalable scientific workflows and cloud security. Her background spans genomics, distributed systems, and production-grade backend engineering, informed by an MS in Computer Science and a BA in Biology. Known for translating domain research needs into reliable, testable infrastructure, she brings a pragmatic, test-driven approach to complex cloud-native projects.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Biology, BA, Biology at Wesleyan UniversityMS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at UMass Boston
Github Skills (15)
exec10
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azure10
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microsoft-azure10
backend10
back-end-development10
scala10
testing9
bioinformatics9
docker8
container8
dockers8
cloud-computing8
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
broadinstitute/cromwell
Oct 2021 - Jan 2023
Scientific workflow engine designed for simplicity & scalability. Trivially transition between one off use cases to massive scale production environments
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 725 reviews, 133 commits in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Janet primarily contributed to the backend of the Cromwell workflow engine, focusing on the integration of the Test Execution Service (TES) backend. Their work involved adding parameters to support user identity for tasks in the Azure environment. They also implemented and refined unit tests for the TES backend, ensuring correct resource creation. The user further updated the code base to include support for features such as retrieving Azure key vault secrets and transforming blob paths.
casestransitionbioinformaticsworkflow-executioncommon-workflow-language
nygenome/cotton
Feb 2013 - Dec 2015
Contributions:12 commits, 7 pushes in 2 years 9 months
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