Summary
Shelby Mccowan is an HPC and cloud engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in infrastructure for scientific and computational biology workloads. Currently an HCP Engineer at Helion after roles building high-performance clusters and bioinformatics services, Shelby combines systems administration, REST API development, and React-based tooling to streamline research pipelines. Comfortable running production infra, they have a track record of networked CentOS clusters and automating bioinformatics programs into reproducible workflows. Based in Seattle with a biochemistry background from Utah State, Shelby bridges domain knowledge in life sciences with DevOps practices to translate complex scientific needs into reliable, scalable systems. An avid problem-solver, they enjoy bringing developer-friendly interfaces and services to the often messy world of research computing.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Biochemistry, Bachelor's degree Biochemistry at Utah State University