Experience

Code Ocean

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Bioinformatics Engineer

  • Feb 2023 - Present

  • Built integrations with platforms like Tableau, DataJoint, and SnowFlake.• Built applications to simplify the transition to our framework for customers. Used Figma to make mockups and assess potential risks before coding applications.• Developed Streamlit applications to make our software easier to use for those without a computational background.• Analyzed and described detailed customer personas to better grasp their needs and goals, aiding in customer development.

• Application Scientist

  • Jun 2022 - Feb 2023

  • Created guidelines for coding and releasing software in our team, providing a framework for consistency.• Developed a practical strategy to rank application development tasks, focusing on the frequency of use in user pipelines.



Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

• United States
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 700 & Above Employee

• Bioinformatician

  • May 2015 - Jun 2022

  • Developed 10 web services for analysis of biological data as a full stack developer. The most popular - Enrichr - raised from 500 users and 10K submissions yearly in 2015, to 100K users and 10M submissions yearly in 2021; • Developed and maintained MySQL databases for gene and drug set libraries and gene expression signatures; • Developed analysis pipelines for processing biological (NGS - RNA-Seq, microarray) data. Published 2 papers with results of these analyses. • Published 5 first author and 7 middle author papers. I have a h-index of 9 (Google Scholar) and an i10-index of 9. Papers I published have been cited over 5000 times. The Enrichr paper has been cited over 3900 times. • Mentored and co-mentored 17 summer students during the yearly three-month summer internship program. My mentees developed 12 MVP of web services for biological data analysis. Published 5 papers describing these web services in NAR, Cell Patterns, Database. • Presented at more than 20 national and international conferences and workshops. Show less



iBinom

• Biotechnology

• Bioinformatics analyst

  • Jan 2015 - May 2015

  • Analyzed market shares of bioinformatics analysis companies. • Reviewed transactions and investments within biotech market. • Reviewed technologies used and services provided by competitor bioinformatics companies. Analyzed and assessed the impact of bioinformatics market trends. • Analyzed market shares of bioinformatics analysis companies. • Reviewed transactions and investments within biotech market. • Reviewed technologies used and services provided by competitor bioinformatics companies. Analyzed and assessed the impact of bioinformatics market trends.



Biogerontology and Regenerative Medicine Center

• Bioinformatician

  • Dec 2013 - Dec 2014

  • Mined data from SEC.gov, ClinicalTrials.gov, Yahoo! Finance and Google Patents for over 50 pre-IPO and publicly listed companies. • Developed a database for a decision support system in biotech. • Wrote a white paper on the current state of the regenerative medicine industry and its prospects for the future. • Mined data from SEC.gov, ClinicalTrials.gov, Yahoo! Finance and Google Patents for over 50 pre-IPO and publicly listed companies. • Developed a database for a decision support system in biotech. • Wrote a white paper on the current state of the regenerative medicine industry and its prospects for the future.



Research Institute of Physical-chemical Medicine

• Laboratory Research Assistant

  • Nov 2011 - May 2012

  • Developed a data integration pipeline processing and analysis of large metagenomics datasets. • Assisted in the development of novel metagenomics analysis methods. • Developed a data integration pipeline processing and analysis of large metagenomics datasets. • Assisted in the development of novel metagenomics analysis methods.