Sakina Saif

Greater Boston United States

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Sakina Saif is a bioinformatics consultant with six years of focused experience building scalable NGS and single-cell pipelines and translating complex genomic data into actionable insights for both research and clinical teams. She has driven production workflows using Nextflow, Snakemake and cloud/HPC environments, and has a track record of automating Benchling templates, dashboards and SOPs to improve reproducibility and data governance. Her background spans industry leaders and startups—from AstraZeneca and Broad Institute to Cellarity, Sanofi and Terrana—where she led multimodal, long-/short-read and variant-calling projects and mentored colleagues. An active open-source contributor, she has hands-on full-stack experience improving tooling in prominent projects like UmiJS (module federation and transpiler support), reflecting her ability to bridge bioinformatics, software engineering and devops. She’s also committed to community outreach and diversity in STEM, participating in nf-core, Science Club for Girls and BWIB, and blends practical lab collaboration with machine learning approaches to drive novel, deployable solutions.

6 years of coding experience

Master of Science - MS, Biotechnology, Master of Science - MS, Biotechnology at Worcester Polytechnic Institute

HMX Pro Graduate Certificate of Achievement, Genetics, Genetic Testing, Cancer Genomics, HMX Pro Graduate Certificate of Achievement, Genetics, Genetic Testing, Cancer Genomics at Harvard Medical School

Data Science and Machine Learning Graduate Training , AI, ML, Data Sceince, Data Analytics, Data Science and Machine Learning Graduate Training , AI, ML, Data Sceince, Data Analytics at Visible Edge Institute

Master of Science - MS, Biology, Environmental Science, Master of Science - MS, Biology, Environmental Science at Government Autonomous Science College

Graduate Certificate in Genomics and Bioinformatics, Graduate Certificate in Genomics and Bioinformatics at Brandeis University

English, Hindi

Github Skills (13)

web-framework10

javascript10

federation10

react10

federated10

webpack-module-federation10

esbuild10

webpacker9

typescript-types9

webpack9

swc9

typescript9

typescripts9

Programming languages (15)

C#JavaC++RustVueGoHTMLSvelte

Github contributions (5)

umijs/umi

Dec 2021 - Jan 2023

A framework in react community ✨

Role in this project:

Full-stack Developer

Contributions:680 reviews, 213 commits, 278 PRs in 1 year

Contributions summary:Sakina primarily contributed to the UmiJS framework, focusing on its module federation system (MFSU) features. Their work involved fixing bugs related to top-level await support in the SWC transpiler and improving MFSU's integration with the ESBuild and SWC transpilers. They also enhanced the build process by supporting user-defined environment variable replacement. Furthermore, the user made various updates to the testing framework.

reactumireact-communityreact-frameworkreactjs

opq-osc/chinchin-pk

Jan 2023 - Mar 2023

Chinchin game

Contributions:19 releases, 2 reviews, 111 commits in 1 month

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