Miguel Covarrubias
Principal Software Engineer at Broad Institute
Newton, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolMiguel Covarrubias is a Principal Software Engineer with 11+ years in software and a long career in genomics-focused institutions, currently leading backend engineering at the Broad Institute from Newton, MA. He blends deep domain knowledge—MS in Biotechnology and dual BS degrees in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering—with practical systems design, performance tuning, and database optimization. Miguel has a track record of improving scientific workflow engines at scale, contributing backend enhancements to the widely used Cromwell project including metadata modeling and performance fixes. Known for refactoring core workflow logic and handling complex data lifecycle issues, he excels at turning research-driven requirements into robust, production-grade systems.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins UniversityBS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at University of Maryland
Github Skills (14)
databases10
backend10
back-end-development10
database10
scala10
testing9
storage8
google-cloud-storage8
cloud-object-storage8
google-cloud8
api-design7
integrations7
apim7
api7
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
broadinstitute/cromwell
Apr 2015 - Jan 2023
Scientific workflow engine designed for simplicity & scalability. Trivially transition between one off use cases to massive scale production environments
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 releases, 471 reviews, 1060 commits in 7 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Miguel focused on backend development in the broadinstitute/cromwell repository. They made several changes to the source code including refactoring code for a cleaner return code, adding a data model to the call metadata endpoint, fixing issues with input files, handling workflow end date and performance enhancements to database interactions. Their work involved modifying core files related to workflow management and data processing.
casestransitionbioinformaticsworkflow-executioncommon-workflow-language
broadinstitute/aws-backend
Nov 2016 - Jun 2017
Contributions:27 commits, 6 PRs, 12 pushes in 7 months
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