Stephanie Gogarten
Senior Research Scientist at University of Washington
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolStephanie Gogarten is a senior research scientist and data engineer with 13 years of experience applying astrophysics-trained quantitative rigor to large-scale bioinformatics and statistical genetics projects. She designs and implements reproducible, cloud-ready pipelines and R/Bioconductor and Python tools that have supported WGS and GWAS analyses on datasets up to 150,000 participants and enabled public releases to platforms like dbGaP and NHGRI AnVIL. Known for pragmatic data modeling and real-time validation, she led QC and curation for multi-center consortia and built infrastructure that harmonized phenotype data across 80 studies. Stephanie bridges technical and ethical considerations—co-leading an ethics working group—and excels at translating complex results to researchers, clinicians, and nontechnical contributors. Based in Seattle, she combines hands-on software development, publication record, and teaching experience to make large genomic datasets trustworthy and usable.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Astronomy, Ph.D., Astronomy at University of WashingtonB.A., Physics, B.A., Physics at University of Chicago
Github Skills (64)
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
UW-GAC/anvil-util-workflows
Sep 2022 - Dec 2024
Utilities for checking files in AnVIL
Contributions:2 reviews, 46 PRs, 118 pushes in 2 years 2 months
UW-GAC/primed-file-conversion
Apr 2022 - Jan 2025
PRIMED file conversion workflows
Contributions:8 PRs, 49 pushes, 10 branches in 2 years 8 months
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