M Aster
Principal Software Engineer at Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Greater Boston United States
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Top SchoolM Aster is a Principal Software Engineer based in Greater Boston with seven years of experience translating complex scientific problems into production software at the Broad Institute. With a PhD in Neuroscience from the University of Pennsylvania and prior academic roles, they blend deep domain expertise in neural systems and biophysics with practical engineering—building large-scale simulations, surgical monitoring tools, and data-cleaning ML pipelines. At Broad they progressed from field engineer to principal engineer, shipping reliable systems that bridge research and operational needs. Comfortable across Python, ML tooling, and data engineering, they have a track record of turning noisy, imbalanced biosignals into actionable datasets for downstream analysis. Colleagues rely on them to translate theoretical models into maintainable code and to mentor cross-disciplinary teams. An unlisted but telling strength is their history of rapid prototyping under tight timelines, delivering production-ready analyses within weeks.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA) Psychology (Behavioral Neuroscience), Bachelor of Arts (BA) Psychology (Behavioral Neuroscience) at Yale UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Neuroscience, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Neuroscience at University of Pennsylvania
Github Skills (37)
genome10
spark10
reproducible-science10
gatk10
sequencing10
pipeline10
bioinformatics10
genomics10
wdl10
science10
terra9
python-bindings9
terraform7
react7
workbench6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
broadinstitute/terra-featured-workspace-tests
Mar 2020 - May 2023
This code is to test that terra featured workspaces are working properly
Contributions:3 reviews, 10 PRs, 37 pushes in 3 years 2 months
testingterraproperlyterraformworkspaces
broadinstitute/terra-tools
Jun 2020 - Oct 2022
scripts for use with Terra
Contributions:23 reviews, 22 commits, 9 PRs in 2 years 4 months
terra
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