Jerica Rideout
Senior Software Engineer at onecodex
Little Rock, Arkansas, United States
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Top SchoolJerica Rideout is a Senior Software Engineer with 14 years of hands-on experience bridging rigorous healthcare operations and production-grade software development. She combines a background as a certified pharmacy technician—with deep expertise in medication safety, inventory management, and high-volume clinical workflows—with a strong open-source track record contributing backend features and test automation to projects like QIIME 2 and scikit-bio. At One Codex she focuses on backend and quality engineering, bringing disciplined testing practices and automation to bioinformatics tooling and educational repos made pip-installable and CI-friendly. Her work spans technical writing, documentation improvements, and unit-test driven development, demonstrating an unusual blend of domain knowledge in pharmacy and practical software engineering. Based in Little Rock, she leverages this cross-disciplinary perspective to deliver reliable, well-tested systems that support reproducible scientific workflows and patient-centered outcomes.
14 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA, Business Administration, Management and Operations, 4.0, Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA, Business Administration, Management and Operations, 4.0 at American InterContinental UniversityBachelor of Business Administration - BBA, Business Administration and Management, General, Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA, Business Administration and Management, General at University of Arkansas - Pulaski Technical CollegeBachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Economics, 3.0, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Economics, 3.0 at Arkansas Tech UniversityPulaski Technical College
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Github Skills (25)
unit-testing10
restructuredtext10
python10
sphinx10
rs10
bioinformatics10
jupyter-notebook10
documentation10
test-automation10
pandas9
software-quality9
quality-assurance9
automated-tests8
pip8
travis-ci8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
scikit-bio/scikit-bio
Dec 2013 - Jan 2018
scikit-bio: a community-driven Python library for bioinformatics, providing versatile data structures, algorithms and educational resources.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:4 releases, 1541 commits, 270 PRs in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Jerica's commits primarily focus on improving the testing framework within the scikit-bio repository, with specific focus on identifying and addressing gaps in the test coverage. They have introduced a new class and test cases aimed at thoroughly validating the project's core I/O functionality and Python 3 compatibility. The commits also refactor and streamline existing testing modules, and implement new tests for verifying various methods and classes related to multiple sequence alignments.
scikitlicensedpythondata-sciencealgorithms-and-data-structures
qiime2/qiime2
Mar 2016 - Mar 2018
Official repository for the QIIME 2 framework.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:1 release, 87 commits, 114 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Jerica's contributions primarily involve implementing and testing features within the QIIME 2 framework, focusing on unit tests for core components, particularly workflows and plugins. The user added and modified unit tests, including tests for a new visualization class and artifact loading, indicating a focus on software quality and testing practices. The commits also demonstrate work related to archive formats and views, reflecting an understanding of the framework's internal workings and data handling.
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