Michael Riffle
Senior Research Scientist at UW Medicine
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Riffle is a Senior Research Scientist and software leader with 11+ years building data-sharing, visualization, and analysis tools for biomedical research, especially proteomics and image analysis. Based at UW Seattle, he leads small developer teams that deliver practical web applications and algorithms—most notably the proxl cross-linking viewer and the broader Limelight proteomics visualization/sharing platform—hosted under the Yeastrc GitHub organization. He blends formal training in computer science, molecular biology, biostatistics, and technical writing to bridge bench science and production engineering, using Java, Python, R, JavaScript, AWS, and SQL. Intellectually curious and problem-driven, he measures success by how effectively his tools enable other researchers to extract value from their data and frequently designs novel algorithms and visualizations tailored to domain needs.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Molecular & Cellular Biology, Bachelor of Science - BS, Molecular & Cellular Biology at University of WashingtonUniversity of California, San DiegoUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English
Github Skills (65)
reproducible-science10
dia10
spectra10
skyline10
reproducible-research10
bioinformatics10
singularity9
nextflow9
pipeline9
bottom-up9
dataflow9
slurm9
mass9
jquery-plugin9
pipeline-framework9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
yeastrc/proxl-import-plink
Mar 2016 - Mar 2018
Contributions:7 releases, 30 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
mriffle/nf-teirex-dda
Jan 2023 - Jun 2024
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 132 pushes in 1 year 5 months
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