Susanna Kiwala
Business And Technological Applications Analyst II - Cancer Genomics Group
Missouri, United States
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Top SchoolSusanna Kiwala is a software engineer and analyst with 12 years of experience building bioinformatics and clinical-grade tooling for cancer genomics at Washington University’s McDonnell Genome Institute. She leads development on widely used open-source projects such as the pVACtools immunotherapy suite and has been a backend lead for CIViC and DGIdb, translating complex genomic requirements into robust production systems. With a strong foundation in statistics, medical documentation, and pipeline automation, she bridges clinical compliance (CLIA-oriented reporting) and scalable engineering. Comfortable across languages from Ruby on Rails and Python to C++ and Perl, she pairs full-stack web skills with database and statistical analysis expertise (R, SAS, SPSS). An early career focus on accessibility and user studies hints at a long-standing commitment to usable, impactful tools for diverse users. Based in Missouri, she maintains an active GitHub portfolio showcasing reproducible, research-driven software work.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom (FH) (= 4 year degree), Documentation in Life Sciences, 3.7, Diplom (FH) (= 4 year degree), Documentation in Life Sciences, 3.7 at Fachhochschule HannoverMS in Engineering, Computer Science, 3.86, MS in Engineering, Computer Science, 3.86 at Southern Illinois University, EdwardsvilleUniversity of Limerick
English, German, French
Github Skills (104)
interpretation10
digital-humanities10
sphinx-doc10
variants10
python10
converting10
cancer-genomics10
ruby10
backend10
markdown10
commons10
pipeline10
open-access10
annotate10
genome10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
susannasiebert/pVAC-Seq
May 2016 - Aug 2017
Contributions:4 PRs, 220 pushes, 157 branches in 1 year 3 months
immunotherapypipelinecancer
griffithlab/docker-vatools
Aug 2018 - Mar 2025
Contributions:16 PRs, 24 pushes, 20 branches in 6 years 7 months
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