Nikelle Petrillo
Senior Software Engineer at Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Greater Boston United States
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Top SchoolNikelle Petrillo is a Senior Software Engineer at the Broad Institute with seven years of experience building bioinformatics pipelines and production software for high-throughput sequencing. Trained as a bioinformatician with an MS from Northeastern, she combines hands-on engineering with domain expertise in RNA-Seq and NGS technologies gained through research roles from Copenhagen to oncology co-ops. At Broad she progressed from associate to senior engineer, focusing on scalable data processing and reproducible analysis of large genomic datasets. Known for bridging research and software development, she implements robust pipelines and tooling that translate complex biological questions into automated, auditable workflows. An early contributor to transcriptome projects—from salamander sequencing to cancer immunotherapy studies—she brings both wet-lab context and strong UNIX/tooling experience to production bioinformatics.
7 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Biology, General, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Biology, General at Providence CollegeMaster of Science (MS), Bioinformatics, Master of Science (MS), Bioinformatics at Northeastern University
Github Skills (28)
reproducible-science10
bam10
hts10
java10
sam10
throughput10
fastq10
sequencing10
pipeline10
java-api10
wdl10
fasta10
sequence10
nim-language10
bioconda10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
broadinstitute/TerraWorkflows
Mar 2024 - Sep 2024
Contributions:15 reviews, 23 PRs, 79 pushes in 5 months
broadinstitute/warp
Jun 2020 - Jan 2023
WDL Analysis Research Pipelines
Contributions:4 releases, 636 reviews, 380 commits in 2 years 8 months
pipelineswdlreproducible-sciencepipeline
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