Shelby Bearrows
Data Services Manager
Starnberg, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolShelby Bearrows is a Data Services Manager and Product Owner with six years of experience building data solutions for clinical research and public health, now leading data services at Roche from Starnberg, Germany. With dual BS degrees in Computer Science and Biochemistry/Molecular Biology, she uniquely bridges lab science and software engineering to improve data integrity and streamline workflows for global research teams. Her background spans public-sector air quality analytics, VA data work, and contributions to the popular tidyverse readr package—where she improved documentation and practical examples for reading flat files. Known for empathetic leadership and a hands-on approach, Shelby combines production-ready tooling with domain fluency in life sciences to deliver usable, auditable data products.
6 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Botany/Plant Biology, Bachelor of Science - BS, Botany/Plant Biology at University of OuluBachelor of Science - BS, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 3.0, Bachelor of Science - BS, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 3.0 at University of IowaBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 3.6, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 3.6 at University of Colorado Boulder College of Engineering & Applied Science
English, German
Github Skills (6)
csv10
text-parsing10
parsing10
documentation10
r10
data-analysis8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
tidyverse/readr
Jan 2022 - Sep 2022
Read flat files (csv, tsv, fwf) into R
Role in this project:
Data Scientist
Data ScientistContributions:23 reviews, 20 commits, 23 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Shelby primarily contributes to the documentation and examples within the `readr` package, specializing in reading flat files (csv, tsv, fwf) into R. They added examples for column type guessing, whitespace-delimited files and `col_select`. Additionally, the user updated the documentation and examples related to various readr functions like `read_table`, `melt_table`, and `parse_number`, clarifying their usage and behavior. The user made revisions to tests and styling.
csvtsvsasparsingcsv-files
sbearrows/sbearrows.github.io
Sep 2019 - Feb 2022
Contributions:157 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
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