Jessica Leigh
Development Team Lead at Dotmatics
Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolJessica Leigh is a Development Team Lead with 11 years of professional software engineering experience, specializing in C++/Qt and Java and currently leading development at Dotmatics from Kitchener, Ontario. Her career bridges computational biology and product engineering, with prior roles building bioinformatics tools at SnapGene and Geneious and early postdoctoral research developing algorithms for microbial evolution. She combines deep domain knowledge from a PhD in Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology with hands-on engineering to deliver robust desktop and server applications for scientific workflows. Known for translating complex biological problems into practical software, she brings both technical mentorship and a researcher's attention to algorithmic detail to team leadership.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Biochemistry Biophysics and Molecular Biology, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Biochemistry Biophysics and Molecular Biology at Dalhousie UniversityMaster of Science (MSc) Biochemistry Biophysics and Molecular Biology, Master of Science (MSc) Biochemistry Biophysics and Molecular Biology at Université de Montréal
English, French, Spanish, German
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Github Skills (40)
cli9
command-line-tool9
macos8
homebrew8
genetic8
administration8
binaries8
docker-commands7
genome-assembly7
sequencing7
bittorrent6
cacert6
bioinformatics6
bayesian6
docker-container6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
jessicawleigh/popart
Mar 2015 - Jul 2019
Contributions:1 release, 3 commits, 6 pushes in 4 years 5 months
jessicawleigh/popart-current
Jul 2019 - Jul 2019
Contributions:1 commit, 2 PRs, 5 pushes in 1 day
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