Kestrel Gorlick
Full Stack Engineer at Aylo Health
Flagstaff, Arizona, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKestrel Gorlick is a full stack engineer with 11 years of development experience who blends Python roots and bioinformatics open-source contributions with modern JavaScript and cloud-native production work. She has contributed plotting and robust test automation to scikit-bio and co-authored widely cited QIIME 2 research, demonstrating an ability to move between scientific tooling and consumer-facing products. At startups and small teams she’s owned features end-to-end—from an Electron/YubiKey admin app to a serverless EMR on AWS—while shipping in agile environments and working across containers, Kubernetes, and React-based SPAs. Based in Flagstaff, she pairs technical craft with a creative streak in photography, music, and graphic design, which influences her thoughtful UI and visualization choices. Kestrel is actively seeking opportunities to grow with a company that values full-stack craftsmanship and cross-disciplinary thinking.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics and Computer Science, Mathematics and Computer Science at W.A. Franke Honors CollegeCertification Computer Software Engineering, Certification Computer Software Engineering at Fullstack AcademyHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at BASIS Phoenix
Github Skills (11)
data-visualizations10
unit-testing10
bioinformatics10
data-visualization10
data-visualisation10
computational-biology10
python10
scientific-computing10
matplotlib10
numpy9
pandas8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
scikit-bio/scikit-bio
Sep 2014 - Jun 2016
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:107 commits, 21 PRs, 211 comments in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Kestrel primarily contributed to the development of the plotting method for the distance matrix within the scikit-bio library. They implemented and refined a heatmap visualization, including changes to the title placement and general code structure to enhance usability. A significant part of the user's contributions involved creating comprehensive unit tests for the plotting method, which ensures the functionality and the quality of the visualizations. They also addressed comments and refactored some portions of the plotting code.
scikitlicensedpythondata-sciencealgorithms-and-data-structures
Kleptobismol/scikit-bio
Jan 2015 - Jun 2016
Contributions:80 pushes, 28 branches in 1 year 5 months
biologicalbiological-datastatisticspython
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