Saskia De Vries
Director, Data And Outreach
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSaskia De Vries is a director-level neuroscientist and data leader with 10+ years driving open-data neuroscience projects at the Allen Institute, where she progressed from bench scientist to Director, Data and Outreach. She co-led the Allen Brain Observatory Visual Coding effort, developed analysis pipelines and tutorials, and contributed code to the widely used AllenSDK for processing large-scale two-photon calcium imaging datasets. Her background blends hands-on electrophysiology and multiphoton imaging with product and outreach leadership, making her adept at translating complex experimental data into reusable public resources. Based in Seattle, she combines deep technical fluency in Python data analysis with a track record of building community-facing tools and workshops. A less obvious strength is her long experience moving between wet-lab experimentation and software engineering, enabling pragmatic solutions that bridge user needs and robust data infrastructure.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Neurobiology, Ph.D., Neurobiology at Harvard UniversityBS, Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, BS, Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale UniversityThe College Preparatory SchoolStanford University
Github Skills (10)
neuroscience10
bioinformatics10
pandas10
science10
python10
numpy10
data-analysis10
data-visualization9
data-visualisation9
data-visualizations9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
AllenInstitute/AllenSDK
Mar 2016 - Apr 2016
code for reading and processing Allen Institute for Brain Science data
Role in this project:
Data Scientist
Data ScientistContributions:1 review, 9 commits, 32 comments in 13 days
Contributions summary:Saskia primarily contributed to the Allen Institute for Brain Science data analysis library, focusing on the `CAM_Analysis_2_NWB.py`, `drifting_grating.py`, and other analysis modules. Their work involved modifying peak response calculations, integrating new parameters, and adjusting analysis pipelines within the context of neuroscience data. They also updated plotting functionalities and fixed issues related to data handling, especially in the `drifting_grating.py` file.
brainneurosciencepythonscienceneuroimaging
AllenSWDB/allenswdb.github.io
Aug 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:100 reviews, 45 PRs, 53 pushes in 1 year 7 months
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