Sasha Ames
Computational Scientist
Berkeley, California, United States
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Top SchoolSasha Ames is a computational scientist with 12 years of experience designing scalable scientific data management systems, currently leading ESGF software development at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. She combines deep expertise in file system architecture, query and index design, and interfaces with hands-on skills in GUI and web development for large distributed data environments. Her research background includes novel indexing structures, lossy hierarchical-compression techniques and parallel workflows for massive metagenomic analysis, bridging theory and production at scale. Sasha’s career weaves academic rigor (MS/PhD work on searchable file systems) with applied engineering across national-lab projects and industry internships, giving her a practical bent on reproducible, searchable data platforms. Based in Berkeley, she’s known for turning complex information-retrieval problems into usable interfaces and performant backends, often focusing on the less-obvious cost/scale tradeoffs in index and compression design.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Computer Science, BA, Computer Science at Columbia UniversityUniversity of California Santa Cruz
c++, python
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (100)
p2p-node10
hosting10
ansible-inventory10
esgf10
prepare10
publisher10
portal10
search-ui10
editor9
hpc-applications9
climate-science9
docker9
mhealth9
climate-change9
controlled9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
sashakames/esgf.github.io
Jul 2016 - Mar 2025
ESGF Web Site
Contributions:5 PRs, 47 pushes, 6 branches in 8 years 9 months
esgfweb-site
sashakames/pcmdi.github.io
Mar 2017 - Mar 2021
repo for hosting web pages
Contributions:2 PRs, 20 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years
hostingweb-hostingdocker
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