Ying W
San Bruno, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYing W is a data scientist-turned-engineering leader with 13 years of experience spanning genomics, biotech, manufacturing, finance, and web3. She combines hands-on data engineering and exploratory analysis with stakeholder-facing project management, guiding teams from messy, ill-defined questions to actionable models, reports, or dashboards. Her background includes managing data science teams at Myriad Genetics and building large-scale data platforms at Meta and Aptos Labs, plus early research that scaled variant-calling pipelines across thousands of whole genomes. She’s an active contributor to Apache Airflow, enhancing BigQuery integrations that bridge orchestration and cloud data warehouses—evidence of her knack for improving production pipelines. Based in San Bruno, CA, Ying is comfortable translating domain expertise from biology to finance and crypto, and she excels at setting realistic expectations about what available data can support. Her mix of academic rigor (PhD in bioinformatics) and pragmatic product delivery makes her effective at turning complex datasets into business value.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Genetic Molecular and Cellular Biology (emphasis on Bioinformatics), PhD Genetic Molecular and Cellular Biology (emphasis on Bioinformatics) at University of Southern CaliforniaBS Computer Science Genetics, BS Computer Science Genetics at University of California, DavisData Analysis Nanodegree, Data Analysis Nanodegree at Udacity
Github Skills (13)
automation10
automations10
workflow-engine10
orchestration10
bigquery10
data-pipeline10
data-pipelines10
python10
airflow10
data-engineering10
gcp10
google-cloud-storage9
sql8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
apache/airflow
Mar 2023 - Mar 2024
Apache Airflow - A platform to programmatically author, schedule, and monitor workflows
Role in this project:
Data Engineer
Data EngineerContributions:9 reviews, 6 PRs, 32 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:Ying's contributions center around extending and improving Google Cloud BigQuery integration within the Apache Airflow framework. They added functionality to interact with BigQuery, including adding the `priority` parameter to `BigQueryHook`, and the `cacheControl` field to Google Cloud Storage. Furthermore, the user added `impersonation_scopes` to BigQuery operator. These changes focused on enhancing the capabilities of BigQuery operators within the data pipeline orchestration environment.
monitorpythonschedulerapacheprogrammatically
ying-w/chipseq-compare
Mar 2016 - Nov 2017
Contributions:5 commits, 7 pushes, 11 comments in 1 year 8 months
chip-seqcomparisonrewritingchipcode-along
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