Ruchi Munshi
Director Of Product Management at Generate:Biomedicines
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolRuchi Munshi is a product leader with 10 years of experience bridging software engineering, research, and product management in genomics and bioinformatics. Currently Director of Product Management at Generate:Biomedicines after rising through technical and product roles at the Broad Institute, she focuses on clear product vision, measurable outcomes, and serving both wet and dry lab users. Her hands-on background includes building and operating Cromwell, a widely used open-source scientific workflow engine, where she contributed backend, devops, and call-caching improvements that helped scale analyses across cloud and HPC environments. Trained as a biochemist, she uniquely combines lab process experience (including CLIA lab automation) with developer-first product stewardship to turn complex scientific workflows into reliable, production-ready tools.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, B.Sc Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at University of Massachusetts Amherst
French, Gujarati, Hindi
Github Skills (14)
back-end-development10
testing9
metadata-management9
caching9
githubaction-workflow7
apidoc7
github-ci7
api7
docker6
dockers6
exec5
workflow-engine5
bioinformatics5
work-flow5
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
broadinstitute/cromwell
Mar 2016 - Jun 2020
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 & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:5 releases, 182 commits, 199 PRs in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Ruchi contributed to the Cromwell workflow engine by implementing tests for the integration and handling of WDL imports, including the addition of functionality to handle directory-based imports. They also worked on call caching, including modifications for call caching behavior, the management of metadata related to caching, and resolving issues pertaining to the copying of cached outputs. The user also made improvements to the pipelines API for label querying and other minor bug fixes.
casestransitionbioinformaticsworkflow-executioncommon-workflow-language
broadinstitute/firecloud-tools
Sep 2017 - Mar 2021
Tools for use with FireCloud
Contributions:4 reviews, 10 commits, 12 PRs in 3 years 5 months
firebasefireclouddocker
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