Jenny Medina
Research Software Engineer at Sage Bionetworks
United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolJenny Medina is a Research Software Engineer with eight years of experience building data accessibility, visualization, and calibration tools for medical and astronomical research. She moved from developing calibration pipelines for Hubble WFC3 and archive tools for TESS and JWST at STScI to enabling reproducible biomedical research at Sage Bionetworks, combining domain knowledge with production-grade software practices. Her open-source contributions include enhancing astroquery’s MAST module—adding anonymous cloud access and robust cloud-focused tests—demonstrating a knack for bridging archival data systems and cloud workflows. Comfortable across data reduction, automation, and documentation, she excels at turning complex observational datasets into usable, well-tested software for diverse research teams.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Physics, Bachelor of Science (BS), Physics at Florida International University
English, Spanish, French
Github Skills (7)
astroquery10
unit-testing10
python10
astronomy10
testing10
cloud-computing9
astropy9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
astropy/astroquery
Oct 2021 - Nov 2022
Functions and classes to access online data resources. Maintainers: @keflavich and @bsipocz and @ceb8
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer/Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer/Test Automation EngineerContributions:102 reviews, 65 commits, 21 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Jenny contributed significantly to the `astroquery` project, primarily focusing on enhancing the `mast` module, a core component for accessing astronomical data resources. Their work involved implementing anonymous cloud access for data products, which included modifications to several files within the `astroquery/mast` directory. Additionally, the user developed and expanded unit tests, particularly for cloud-related functionalities, and implemented test fixes.
pythondataastropy-affiliatedastropyastronomy
Sage-Bionetworks-Workflows/nf-synapse-challenge
Jan 2024 - Mar 2025
Flexible framework for submission evaluation for challenges run on Synapse
Contributions:134 reviews, 58 PRs, 446 pushes in 1 year 2 months
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