Nicole Washington
Director Of Product Management at Helix
Berkeley, California, United States
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Top SchoolNicole Washington is a Director of Product Management with ~18–20 years of experience building analytics and software products that bring genomic and clinical data into actionable workflows for researchers, clinicians, and enterprise customers. A classically trained geneticist with a Ph.D. in Molecular, Cellular, and Biochemistry and a computer science minor, she blends deep domain expertise in population genomics, pharmacogenomics, and computational biology with product leadership. At Helix she progressed from bioinformatics and research leadership into product direction, shipping internal tools and consumer-facing analytics that accelerate discovery and personalize medicine. Her background in building RDF graph integrations, ETL pipelines, and phenotype-aware genomics tooling at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab underpins a rare ability to translate complex bioinformatics systems into product features. Nicole is equally comfortable with hands-on knowledge engineering, biocuration, and cross-disciplinary collaboration with clinicians and PIs, which helps bridge research and commercial deployment. Based in Berkeley, she combines scientific rigor with pragmatic product execution to scale genomics-driven decision-making.
18 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
The University of ArizonaBachelor of Science - BS Biology General, Bachelor of Science - BS Biology General at Harvey Mudd College
Github Skills (61)
skos10
linked-data10
pipeline10
json-ld10
owl10
monarchinitiative10
ontologies9
web-application9
django9
genome9
api9
data-ingestion9
genomics8
python8
viewer8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
nlwashington/schemas
Mar 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 3 months
bioinformaticsgenomicgenomicsdata-models
monarch-initiative/dipper
Dec 2014 - Feb 2016
Data Ingestion Pipeline for Monarch
Contributions:783 commits, 326 pushes, 11 branches in 1 year 2 months
json-ldmonarchinitiativejsonldpipelinelinked-data
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