Nicole Heisterberg
Software Engineer at Google
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolNicole Heisterberg is a software engineer with eight years of experience building cloud-native data pipelines and developer tooling, currently at Google after leading scalable compute infrastructure efforts at 23andMe. She combines a PhD in Genetics from Stanford with hands-on engineering—co-leading analysis of a $15M multi-omics consortium that resulted in a Nature cover publication—bringing a rare mix of domain expertise and production software skills. Her strengths include Python, AWS, Terraform, Docker, CI/CD and workflow automation (Snakemake), which she used to cut a major compute cost by 80% and accelerate reproducible analyses. Nicole is passionate about improving developer productivity through testing, documentation, and tooling, and has a track record of translating complex research requirements into reliable, efficient pipelines and public-facing packages.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Genetics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Genetics at Stanford University School of MedicineBachelor of Science (B.S.) Biomedical/Medical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Biomedical/Medical Engineering at University of ConnecticutHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Somers High School
English
Github Skills (70)
seq10
r-package10
fasta9
topological-data-analysis9
ancestry9
gwas9
encode9
pipeline8
r8
dimensionality-reduction8
refactoring8
approximation8
static-html8
projection8
meta-analysis8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
nicolerg/resources
Apr 2020 - Dec 2022
Documentation and tutorials worth sharing.
Contributions:104 commits, 2 PRs, 76 pushes in 2 years 8 months
sharing
MoTrPAC/clinical-sample-batching
May 2021 - Dec 2022
Batching script for clinical samples
Contributions:7 releases, 10 PRs, 23 pushes in 1 year 7 months
batchingclinical
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.