Sara Willis
Computing Sciences Researcher II at University of Arizona Information Technology Services
Tucson, Arizona, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSara Willis is an HPC-focused computing sciences researcher with nine years of experience translating a strong math and physics foundation into practical computational solutions for research. Based at the University of Arizona, she consults on Slurm-based clusters—debugging code, optimizing workflows, installing software, and building system tools and public documentation to improve usability. Her background in computational biology and managing large genomic pipelines and MySQL-backed datasets gives her a rare blend of domain science and systems engineering. She curates training materials and open-source scripts on GitHub and produces instructional videos to broaden researcher access to HPC. Known for shepherding reproducible pipelines and mentoring contributors, she drives efficiency that accelerates scientific discovery.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
The University of Arizona
Github Skills (13)
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
MaselLab/ProteinEvolution
Dec 2018 - Jun 2019
Contributions:278 commits, 264 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
SaraMWillis/slurm-wrappers
Nov 2021 - Jul 2022
Custom SLURM wrapper scripts to make finding job histories and system resource usage more easily accessible
Contributions:1 release, 44 commits, 1 PR in 7 months
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