Sharra Neely
Senior Software Engineer at Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolSharra Neely is a Senior Software Engineer in Boston with 8+ years of hands-on experience delivering Java and full-stack solutions, currently building research-focused systems at Harvard Medical School’s Avillach Labs. She has a strong track record of translating stakeholder needs into prioritized, agile deliverables—previously supporting eight concurrent full-stack projects at American Water that served thousands of employees. Known for balancing technical debt with product value, she brings leadership, rapid iteration, and customer-focused delivery to cross-functional teams. Early career roles show a practical blend of automation and operational impact, from reducing outage response times with an automated alert UI to hands-on water quality testing. She holds a Computer Science degree from the University of Connecticut and consistently pairs analytical research with pragmatic engineering choices.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Shawnee High SchoolBachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at University of Connecticut
Github Skills (13)
predictor10
genomics8
bioinformatics8
parse7
search-interface6
metadata5
data-lineage5
data-governance4
data-catalog4
search-engine4
data-profiling3
science3
computer-science2
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
hms-dbmi/picsure-dictionary-etl
Aug 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:2 reviews, 17 PRs, 60 pushes in 7 months
sharra44/PassportApp
Feb 2018 - Feb 2018
Contributions:1 PR, 5 pushes, 6 branches in 14 days
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