Malvika Sharan is a Senior Director of the Office of Data Science at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and a seasoned builder of open source and open science communities with 11 years of experience. A recovering computational biologist, she bridges research and production by championing reproducible, participatory, and ethical data and AI practices across teams and initiatives. As a leader with The Turing Way and Open Life Science, she has driven community-driven tooling, documentation, and testing to improve the integrity and maintainability of shared resources. Her hands-on work includes strengthening quality controls in widely used reproducible data science guides, highlighting a commitment to both technical rigor and accessible knowledge. Malvika combines strategic leadership with grassroots community engagement to scale human-centered innovation and digital skills. She invites collaboration on equitable, intersectional approaches to AI ethics and open science.
Host repository for The Turing Way: a how to guide for reproducible data science
Role in this project:
Software Engineer (with a focus on testing and documentation)
Contributions:11 releases, 920 reviews, 3102 commits in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Malvika primarily contributed to improving the code quality and maintainability of the project. Their work involved implementing and refining tests to identify and eliminate issues related to bad Latin phrases and "lorem ipsum" text within the book content. They also updated documentation and scripts to help with automation. This suggests a focus on ensuring the integrity and quality of the book's content.
Contributions:1 review, 106 commits, 53 PRs in 1 month
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.
Request Free Trial
Malvika Sharan - Senior Director - Office Of Data Science