Wytamma Wirth
Postdoctoral Research Officer at The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity
Greater Melbourne Area Australia
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Top SchoolWytamma Wirth is a postdoctoral research officer in Melbourne with nine years of experience at the interface of virology and software, building research tools and web apps to accelerate scientific discovery. With a PhD in Virology and a strong laboratory background in surveillance, RT-qPCR and student supervision, she translates biological problems into robust computational solutions. An active back-end contributor to the well-known pyeve REST API framework, she has improved aggregation and pagination features that enhance data retrieval for web services. She also co-founded and organized CodeR Townsville, teaching R and fostering reproducible analysis across disciplines. Colleagues describe her as a technically-minded biologist who pursues the disinterested search—curious, methodical, and geared toward open, usable research software.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Virology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Virology at James Cook University
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Github Skills (21)
api-rest10
aggregate10
python10
api-design10
restful-api10
flask-ask10
mongodb-database10
pipe10
pagination10
pipeline10
rest-api10
aggregates10
mongodb10
flask10
testing9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
pyeve/eve
Nov 2018 - Apr 2019
REST API framework designed for human beings
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 4 months
Contributions summary:Wytamma primarily contributed to the back-end logic of the REST API framework. Their work included adding features related to aggregation pipelines, specifically implementing facet aggregation and pagination. They also fixed a bug related to accessing the total count in aggregation results and added tests for pagination and link functionality. The commits demonstrate a focus on enhancing data retrieval and presentation within the framework.
restrest-apipythonflaskmongodb
Wytamma/GISAIDR
Apr 2021 - Nov 2022
Programmatically interact with the GISAID database.
Contributions:4 releases, 206 commits, 7 PRs in 1 year 6 months
databasesars-cov-2
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