Michelle Savage
Senior DevOps Engineer at The Johns Hopkins University
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichelle Savage is a Senior DevOps Engineer with seven years of experience building and operating software across research and consumer domains, currently contributing to computational biology platforms at Johns Hopkins University as part of the Galaxy and AnVIL teams. She previously led full-stack development and merger-driven technical integration at The Knot Worldwide, helping drive >20% sales growth through pragmatic feature delivery. Her background spans startup prototyping, enterprise product management at Apple, and hands-on consulting, giving her a rare blend of rapid prototyping, product-facing design, and scalable operations expertise. Michelle’s career includes being the first front-end engineer at an agtech startup that exited for $63M, showing an ability to turn prototypes into valuable products. Based in Washington, D.C., she pairs an MBA from Columbia Business School and a Dartmouth undergraduate foundation with cross-functional leadership in distributed engineering teams. Colleagues rely on her to translate complex research requirements into reproducible, production-ready pipelines that bridge science and software.
7 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at Columbia Business SchoolBachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at Dartmouth College
French, English
Github Skills (24)
hub10
docker10
python10
data-science10
workflow-engine10
chip-seq10
pipeline10
sequencing10
bioinformatics10
galaxy10
genomics10
science10
metagenomics10
documentation10
command-line-utility9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
hujambo-dunia/galaxy-hub
Dec 2023 - Jul 2026
Galaxy Community Hub
Contributions:1 PR, 134 pushes, 40 branches in 2 years 7 months
hujambo-dunia/training-material
Dec 2023 - May 2026
A collection of Galaxy-related training material
Contributions:16 pushes, 8 branches in 2 years 5 months
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