Nov 2021 - Present

My role involves the development, maintainance and deployment of production-level bioinformatics pipelines and tools. This includes workflows such as a Snakemake-based pipeline for whole-genome sequencing data, R-based tool for benchmarking of computational efficiency within our pipelines, and other tools for customized data analysis. I also perform data analysis, generate quality control reports, and regularly disemminate results and data to our internal stakeholders.

Jun 2020 - Nov 2021

I was the primary technical lead for the Biocomputing Centre on the COVID-19 Genomics project, providing computational support for routine data-analysis, QC/QA, identification and tracking of variants of concern, and development of bioinformatics pipelines handling 40k+ genomes to date. I worked closely with external stakeholders and interdisciplinary groups at the Ministry level to help develop provincial guidelines from SARS-CoV-2 genomic insights.

Master's Internship

Jan 2020 - May 2020

I lead the software development of an extension to the Beacon Network, a real-time serach engine used to crowdsource genomic variant data. I also contributed to the development of an ETL pipeline for a real-time search engine built for SARS-CoV-2 data, now known as Viral.ai. I worked on full-stack development of services including REST APIs built with Java, Javascript, relational databases (PostgreSQL, BigQuery), deployed on GCP and Azure.

Master's Project

May 2019 - Jan 2020

I helped develop a visual analytics software used for clinical variant interpretation, known as Geneterpret. I worked on both the back-end and front-end development (Python, Javascript/Node.js, and mongoDB) and performed extensive software testing and validation using internal patient datasets and datasets from external database such as ClinVar, dbSNP, COSMIC, and gnomAD.