Olesya Melnichenko
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolOlesya Melnichenko is a Senior Software Engineer with a PhD in Mathematics and eight years of industry experience, currently building software at Microsoft. She blends a strong scientific foundation in applied mathematics and modeling with hands-on data analysis and engineering practice, having worked across research, pharma modeling, and academia. Comfortable translating complex concepts for diverse stakeholders, she consistently delivers projects on time through disciplined planning and clear communication. Her background spans roles from junior researcher at the Institute of Numerical Mathematics to assistant professor at MSU and applied modeling at Novartis, reflecting both depth in theory and practical impact. At Microsoft she applies this hybrid research-engineering mindset to production-scale problems, bringing rigorous quantitative thinking to software development. An intellectually curious collaborator, she often bridges research insights and product requirements in cross-functional teams.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Professional TrainingsLomonosov Moscow State University
Russian, English
Github Skills (58)
genome10
cromwell10
rna-seq10
bioinformatics10
genomics10
converting9
nextflow9
pipeline9
sequencing9
gwas9
nf-core9
sequence9
azure9
wdl9
population-genetics9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/five-dollar-genome-analysis-pipeline-azure
Oct 2019 - Oct 2020
Workflows used for germline short variant discovery in WGS data - replaced by https://github.com/microsoft/gatk4-genome-processing-pipeline-azure
Contributions:7 commits, 7 PRs, 8 pushes in 1 year
genomepipelineprocessing-pipelinewgsshort
microsoft/gatk4-genome-processing-pipeline-azure
Jun 2020 - Apr 2021
Workflows used for processing whole genome sequence data + germline variant calling.
Contributions:1 review, 45 commits, 7 PRs in 10 months
germline-variant-callingsequencecallinggenomepipeline
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