Scott Frazer
Principal Engineer at Blues Wireless
Watertown, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolScott Frazer is a Principal Engineer with 15 years of experience building scalable backend systems and scientific workflow tooling, currently based in Watertown, MA. He brings deep expertise in workflow languages and engines—having contributed an initial parser and sample WDL workflows and meaningful parsing and evaluation improvements to the Broad Institute’s widely used Cromwell project. Scott is known for pragmatic problem solving and shipping features that improve usability and file handling across backends, blending meticulous engineering with team collaboration. His career spans R&D and production roles at Blues Wireless, TriNetX, and the Broad Institute, reflecting both startup and large-institution fluency. Quietly curious, he pairs a formal CS background from UMass Amherst and Lancaster with an inclination for clear, maintainable language and tooling improvements that help others scale bioinformatics pipelines.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Computer Science, B.S. Computer Science at University of Massachusetts AmherstComputer Science, Computer Science at Lancaster University
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Github Skills (19)
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
openwdl/wdl
Jul 2012 - Apr 2016
Specification for the Workflow Description Language (WDL).
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:233 commits, 19 PRs, 104 pushes in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Scott contributed to the project by implementing several WDL (Workflow Description Language) definitions for bioinformatics workflows. The user appears to be focused on creating sample workflows, as evidenced by their contributions of multiple WDL files which demonstrates proficiency in WDL syntax and workflow structure. The user created an initial parser.
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broadinstitute/cromwell
Apr 2015 - Aug 2016
Scientific workflow engine designed for simplicity & scalability. Trivially transition between one off use cases to massive scale production environments
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 releases, 292 commits, 248 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Scott primarily contributed to the Cromwell scientific workflow engine by implementing enhancements for WDL language parsing and expression evaluation. They added support for features such as declaring and processing variables with default values. Other contributions include improved string interpolation, and a set of functions. These changes provided a direct improvement to the overall feature set and usability for users writing workflows in WDL. The user also made improvements to support the handling and storage of files, including array files for both the local and JES backends.
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