Tessa Ward
Assistant Researcher at University of California, Davis
Davis, California, United States
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Top SchoolTessa Ward is an Assistant Researcher at UC Davis with 11 years of experience bridging marine biology and bioinformatics. Trained with a PhD from Scripps Institution of Oceanography and MS/BS degrees from Stanford, she has transitioned academic research into reproducible computational workflows and tool development. Her open-source contributions to the widely used Snakemake wrappers repository demonstrate hands-on backend and DevOps skills—adding and testing wrappers for tools like Trinity, Salmon, and BUSCO and improving CI/CD pipelines. As a former postdoc and PhD student studying marine systems, she combines domain expertise in ecology and genomics with practical software engineering to make analyses scalable and reproducible. Colleagues value her for turning complex biological questions into robust, automated pipelines that others can reuse.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Marine Biology, PhD, Marine Biology at University of California, San Diego - Scripps Institution of OceanographyM.S., Biology, M.S., Biology at Stanford University
Github Skills (10)
bioinformatics10
snakemake10
python10
testing9
shell8
docker8
script8
sh8
dockers8
scripting8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
snakemake/snakemake-wrappers
Jun 2018 - Dec 2019
This is the development home of the Snakemake wrapper repository, see
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:12 commits, 10 PRs, 13 comments in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Tessa primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of Snakemake wrappers within the repository. Their work included implementing new wrappers for tools like Trinity, Salmon, BUSCO, PEAR, PLASS, last, hmmer, and transdecoder, as well as updating existing wrappers. Additionally, the user integrated test cases for the implemented wrappers, demonstrating a focus on quality and usability. They also made modifications to build, test, and deployment pipelines.
snakemake
bluegenes/2020-test-sencha
Apr 2020 - Jul 2021
Contributions:1 review, 5 PRs, 10 pushes in 1 year 3 months
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