Jimmy Eng
Software Engineer at University of Washington
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJimmy Eng is a seasoned software engineer based in Seattle with 12 years of professional experience and a multi-decade research and engineering background at institutions like the University of Washington, Institute for Systems Biology, and Fred Hutch. He specializes in computational proteomics, blending deep domain knowledge in life sciences with practical software development to deliver research-grade tools and infrastructure. At the University of Washington he has been a long-tenured engineering contributor, translating complex experimental workflows into reliable, production-capable code. His career bridges research consulting and senior engineering roles, reflecting a sustained focus on reproducibility, data-driven pipelines, and bioinformatics software. Known for steady, institutional expertise rather than flashy startup pivots, he brings rare continuity and domain fluency to biomedical software projects.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
MS, MS at University of Washington
Github Skills (28)
database-sequence10
mass10
tandem10
mass-spectrometry10
sequence10
database10
ms-data6
algorithms4
linux4
windows4
macos4
codebase3
spectra2
reduction2
python2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
UWPR/Comet
Oct 2021 - Jan 2023
An tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS) sequence database search tool.
Contributions:37 releases, 3 reviews, 351 commits in 1 year 4 months
sequencetandemdatabase-searchspectrometrymass-spectrometry
jke000/Comet
Sep 2024 - Dec 2024
An tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS) sequence database search tool.
Contributions:2 releases, 19 pushes, 3 tags in 3 months
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