Saman Ehsan
Staff Software Engineer at Manifold
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSaman Ehsan is a Staff Software Engineer in New York with 11 years of experience delivering data-intensive, cloud-native systems from planning to production across domains like data processing, storage, and identity/access management. He has driven productionization of workflow services at the Broad Institute—scaling pipeline infrastructure to support national-scale genomics projects—and built Terra data repository features including Azure storage and data protection policies. A pragmatic back-end specialist comfortable in Python/Django and Kubernetes, he also contributes to open-source science tools such as the Open Science Framework, fixing tricky bugs and adding comment/file/wiki endpoints. His background in biochemistry and hands-on lab research gives him a rare combination of domain knowledge and engineering rigor when building reproducible scientific platforms.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Advanced Diploma, Advanced Diploma at Langley High SchoolMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science (B.S.) Biochemistry, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Biochemistry at University of Virginia
English
Github Skills (6)
api10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
python10
django10
database-design9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
CenterForOpenScience/osf.io
Jul 2014 - May 2016
Facilitating Open Science
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1552 commits, 191 PRs, 1238 comments in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Saman primarily addressed bug fixes and implemented new features related to the OSF. Their work involved resolving infinite loop errors and content validation issues within comment-related views. The contributions also include the addition of new endpoints for node comments, and the creation of file-related features using Django and other Python packages. Additionally, this user focused on adding and connecting additional features to the wiki as well as adding a few extra models.
pythonsciencedjango-rest-frameworkdjangojavascript
samanehsan/exp-addons
Jul 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:113 pushes, 79 branches in 4 months
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