Sarah Whitaker
Senior Software Engineer at Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSarah Whitaker is a Senior Software Engineer in Boston with nine years of experience building large-scale data storage, modeling, and ETL systems—primarily in biomedical research settings at the Broad Institute. She has designed BigQuery schemas with scientists, built Scala ETL pipelines moving hundreds of terabytes, and contributed to cloud-native infrastructure (Kubernetes, Argo CD, Helm, Terraform) to automate and monitor data migrations. Comfortable across the stack, she’s shipped backend services, REST APIs, and data-driven web visualizations while leading small teams for event-driven products. Her background in data science and hands-on work with public research datasets (Human Cell Atlas, ENCODE, Dog Aging Project) gives her a rare combination of domain knowledge and production engineering fluency.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Jackson High SchoolBachelor's degree Data Science, Bachelor's degree Data Science at Northeastern UniversityHarvard Extension School
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Github Skills (74)
pubmed10
backend-api9
genomics-visualization9
backend9
discoverability9
integrate9
django-admin8
rna-seq8
encode8
monster8
admin8
django7
genomics7
data-repository7
bioinformatics7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
HackBeanpot/livesite-2021
Dec 2020 - Feb 2021
The day-of site for the 2021 hackathon
Contributions:79 reviews, 52 PRs, 77 pushes in 2 months
reactjavascriptdayreactjshackathon-2021
snwessel/snwessel.github.io
Dec 2016 - Sep 2023
Contributions:55 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 9 months
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