Karen Dalton
Board Member at Bay Area Python Association
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolKaren Dalton is a seasoned full-stack and cloud-focused engineer with 11+ years delivering production systems, currently serving as a board member of the Bay Area Python Association. She blends hands-on expertise in cloud infra (AWS/GCP, Terraform, Docker, serverless) and DevOps with front-end and backend proficiency (Python, JS/React, Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, NoSQL) to lead complex, research-grade projects. At Stanford she led infrastructure for large multi-omics consortia and COVID-19 collaborations, turning scientific requirements into scalable, tested pipelines. A pragmatic engineering manager and mentor, she emphasizes quality, automated testing, security, and cross-functional collaboration across PMs, DBAs, and biocurators. Active in the Bay Area tech community as a meetup and conference organizer, she keeps teams current on emerging tools and AI-enabled workflows. Off the console she’s equally comfortable discussing protein purification protocols from earlier lab work and spotting whale breaches from her Maui balcony.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Biology, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Biology at Central Connecticut State UniversityMaster's degree (part-time) Computer Science, Master's degree (part-time) Computer Science at Johns Hopkins Whiting School of EngineeringDoctoral Studies in Cell and Molecular Biology/Microbiology (ABD), Doctoral Studies in Cell and Molecular Biology/Microbiology (ABD) at University of Virginia
English, Spanish, Chinese
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Github Skills (49)
pyramid10
encode10
san9
gcp9
python9
wsgi9
metadata9
pylons9
python-web9
database9
genome8
gradle-plugin8
react8
diego8
sql8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
MoTrPAC/motrpac-tools
Mar 2019 - Aug 2020
Scripts and Tools useful for MoTrPAC
Contributions:12 commits, 8 PRs, 12 pushes in 1 year 5 months
motrpacuseful-tools
kilodalton/kilodalton.github.io
Sep 2018 - Apr 2020
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
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