Tinashe Tapera
Research Software Engineer at Northeastern University
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolTinashe Tapera is a research software engineer with a decade of experience building reproducible data pipelines and applied analyses at the intersection of health, climate, and neuroimaging. Trained in psychology and now pursuing advanced computer science studies at Northeastern, he blends behavioral insight with engineering rigor to infer mental health states from phone and wearable sensor data. His work spans academia and industry—recent roles include neuroimaging analysis at Penn, data science internships, and a current research engineering role at Harvard—where he focuses on robust, deployable tools for public and climate health research. Tinashe’s unique edge is his grounding in psychological theory, which guides not just model building but the interpretation of what signals actually mean for human behavior and just-in-time interventions.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, PSYCHOLOGY, Master's degree, PSYCHOLOGY at Drexel UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Northeastern University
Github Skills (83)
flywheel10
tidyverse10
dplyr10
risk-assessment10
sanity10
neuroscience10
tsne10
neuroimaging10
umbrella9
linear-models9
exchange9
datasets9
bids9
dataframes8
r-language8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
PennLINC/labSlides
Jun 2021 - Nov 2021
Contributions:10 commits, 9 pushes in 5 months
PennLINC/RBC_demo_pheno
Mar 2022 - Aug 2022
Contributions:29 commits, 15 pushes in 4 months
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