Susan Hert
Director Of Engineering at LabKey
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSusan Hert is a seasoned engineering leader and architect with over a decade of experience designing and delivering robust, scalable software and algorithmic systems, currently serving as Director of Engineering at LabKey in Seattle. She combines deep technical fluency—spanning Java, Ruby, SQL/NoSQL, and large-scale back-end services—with a track record of modernizing legacy systems into service-oriented architectures. A clear communicator and reliable project leader, she has repeatedly bridged product, operations, and distributed teams to ship complex data-driven products for libraries, renewable energy, and scientific research. Her background includes academic research (Ph.D. in Computer Science) and hands-on platform design for terabyte-scale data delivery, reflecting an ability to translate rigorous theory into practical, production-ready systems.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Computer Sciences, Ph.D., Computer Sciences at University of Wisconsin-MadisonB.S., Math & Computer Science, B.S., Math & Computer Science at Drake University
English, German
Github Skills (48)
kotlin10
npm10
mass10
groovy10
npm-package10
panorama10
distributions10
java10
nodejs10
biomedical10
gradle10
api-client9
testing9
hierarchical9
javascript9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
LabKey/workflow
May 2015 - Nov 2024
Workflow processing engine and services
Contributions:8 reviews, 33 PRs, 140 pushes in 9 years 8 months
iftttworkflow-enginelabkey-modulecloudnativejava
LabKey/versioning
Aug 2016 - Jun 2023
Gradle plug-in to generate version information from the SCM branch (Git or Svn)
Contributions:5 reviews, 1 PR, 12 pushes in 6 years 11 months
gradlesvnplug-inscmsemantic-versioning
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