Sarah Beecroft
Life Sciences Supercomputing Specialist at Pawsey Supercomputing Centre
Perth, Western Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolSarah Beecroft is a Life Sciences Supercomputing Specialist with a decade of experience applying high-performance computing to biological research, currently enabling biologists at Pawsey Supercomputing Centre to scale workflows and overcome systemic barriers to HPC. With a PhD in Medicine and a background in neurogenetics and NGS pipeline development, she translates complex genomics problems into efficient, reproducible compute solutions and targeted training. She has a strong track record in curriculum design and delivery as an adjunct and guest lecturer, bringing classroom-tested teaching into hands-on outreach and micro-credential programs. Sarah’s experience spans research roles in disease gene discovery and postdoctoral bioinformatics to practical HPC fellowship work, giving her a rare combination of wet-lab insight and production-scale compute expertise. Known for advocating accessibility, she focuses not just on performance tuning but on lowering the friction for researchers to adopt advanced computational tools.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Medicine, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Medicine at The University of Western AustraliaBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Human Biology, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Human Biology at Edith Cowan University
Swedish
Github Skills (89)
buster9
rna-seq9
kallisto9
bioinformatics9
nextflow8
lmod8
singularity8
genomics8
snakemake8
illumina8
environment-modules8
metagenomics8
seq7
nf-core7
python-app7
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
AustralianBioCommons/falcon
Feb 2020 - Apr 2022
Contributions:51 commits, 1 PR, 51 pushes in 2 years 2 months
SarahBeecroft/Linkage
Oct 2018 - May 2021
Contributions:69 commits, 65 pushes in 2 years 7 months
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