Verena Chung
Senior Bioinformatics Engineer
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVerena Chung is a Senior Bioinformatics Engineer with a decade of experience building reproducible tools and infrastructure for computational biology, currently advancing open science initiatives at Sage Bionetworks. Her career spans hands-on roles at Harvard Medical School—where she developed online bioinformatics tools and a LIMS—and teaching graduate programming courses in Perl and Python at Northeastern University. Verena combines software engineering rigor with domain expertise in bioinformatics, moving projects from research prototypes to maintainable production services. She has steadily progressed through technical roles at Sage, reflecting both deepening responsibility and sustained contribution to collaborative biomedical data platforms. Outside work she channels the same curiosity into gaming, science fiction, and exploring new restaurants, a pattern that feeds her practical creativity in problem solving.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Biochemistry, Bachelor's degree, Biochemistry at University of WashingtonMaster of Science, Bioinformatics, Master of Science, Bioinformatics at Northeastern University
Github Skills (96)
regression10
medical-image-analysis10
openapi10
monorepo10
angular10
agora10
classification10
full-stack10
sage10
segmentation10
data-augmentation10
vcenter10
biomedical-image-processing9
react-component9
benchmark9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
Sage-Bionetworks-Challenges/sample-model-templates
Mar 2023 - Apr 2025
Sample templates for creating a Docker model submission on Synapse.
Contributions:2 releases, 6 reviews, 8 PRs in 2 years
mc2-center/mc2-center-dcc
Sep 2022 - Mar 2025
Data coordination resources for CCKP (and MC2 in general)
Contributions:75 reviews, 41 PRs, 88 pushes in 2 years 6 months
blockchaincoordination
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