Yooree Chae
Technical Program Manager at Okta
California, United States
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Top SchoolYooree Chae is a Technical Program Manager based in California with 11 years of experience bridging science and software to drive open-science product development. She combines a MS in Bioinformatics and hands-on lab experience with program leadership at organizations like Sage Bionetworks and Okta to translate complex scientific requirements into usable, secure data-sharing tools. Yooree has led Agile transformations, owned end-to-end development of data ingress tooling for consortia spanning oncology and COVID-19, and reduced data model update cycles from weeks to hours through designer-researcher partnerships. Known for empathy-driven collaboration, she improves hiring practices and documentation to make technical systems accessible to diverse users. Her background as a curator and researcher gives her a rare fluency in both experimental workflow nuances and scalable engineering practices.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Science, Biology, Bachelors of Science, Biology at Portland State UniversityMasters of Science, Bioinformatics, Masters of Science, Bioinformatics at Northeastern University
Korean
Github Skills (31)
derived10
sage10
biomedical-informatics10
schema10
biomedical10
metadata9
ingress9
shiny-apps9
python8
shiny8
data-model8
portal8
staging6
nlp5
meta-analysis5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ncihtan/HTAN-Data-Ingress-Docs
Jun 2020 - Jun 2022
A draft of the HTAN dataset ingress workflow - to share with tester teams and early adopters.
Contributions:13 reviews, 28 PRs, 13 pushes in 1 year 11 months
ingressdatasetshareworkflow
ychae/synapseDocs
Apr 2016 - Oct 2018
Contributions:4 PRs, 260 pushes, 79 branches in 2 years 6 months
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