Experience

Amber Bio
• Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Bioinformatics Scientist

  • Nov 2022 - Present


Encoded Therapeutics Inc.

• United States
• Biotechnology Research
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Bioinformatics Scientist

  • Sep 2020 - Dec 2022

  I build NGS pipelines to support gene therapy discovery and pre-clinical development I build NGS pipelines to support gene therapy discovery and pre-clinical development



Ginkgo Bioworks, Inc.

• United States
• Biotechnology Research
• 700 & Above Employee

• Bioinformatics Scientist

  • Oct 2018 - Sep 2020

  - I analyze short & long read NGS data to assist program teams with genome assembly, strain improvement & validation, variant calling & effect classification, etc. - Led a team to productionize Ginkgo’s long-read sequencing capabilities and scaled throughput 5X from a manual process to a standardized service that assembled 48 microbial genomes per week via wet-lab process changes, data tracking and analysis pipeline development - Developed Illumina and Nanopore based strain verification pipelines to identify repetitive, high copy number, random DNA integration events in challenging hosts - Developed and deployed Dockerized workflows in AWS for a variety of new NGS services including amplicon processing, genome polishing & annotation liftover, comparative genomics applications, RNAseq, and structural variant detection Show less



Northwestern University

• Philippines
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• PHD Candidate

  • Sep 2013 - Sep 2018

  Researched microbial community assembly mechanisms using next-generation sequencing data. Designed and built workflows for taxonomic clustering and analysis of community diversity using Python, R and bash. Studied exoelectrogenic biofilm composition and functional responses to shifts in carbon feed sources. Researched microbial community assembly mechanisms using next-generation sequencing data. Designed and built workflows for taxonomic clustering and analysis of community diversity using Python, R and bash. Studied exoelectrogenic biofilm composition and functional responses to shifts in carbon feed sources.


Clean Energy Trust
• Analyst

  • 2012 - 2013