About me
BIOINFORMATICS DATA SCIENTIST la· BIOTECH · VANCOUVER, BC
I’m a data scientist at Sonoma Biotherapeutics, a Treg cell therapy company developing treatments for autoimmune disease. I write the pipelines and analysis behind our drug discovery, clinical, and translational work.
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My skills and current technical interests include:
- Analytics and Visualization. R (tidyverse, ggplot2), Python, some JavaScript1. My preferred reportable format is html 2. I recently won the Posit Annual Plotnine and Table contests.
- Data engineering. Quarto for reproducible reports, GitHub Actions for CI/CD, Prefect, Dagster, and
targetsfor pipeline orchestration. I care about reproducibility: knowing where a number came from and being able to rerun it. - Bioinformatics, statistics, and machine learning. RNA-seq, DNA methylation, single-cell, TCR-seq. Applied mostly to autoimmune tissue/PBMC and placental/pregnancy biology.
I earned my PhD from the University of British Columbia (2022), Vancouver BC, studying epigenetics and placental biology in Dr. Wendy Robinson’s lab. There I created several machine learning models on placental DNA methylation datasets, and published bioinformatic software packages. Before that, I graduated with a BSc in Molecular Biology from Concordia University, Montreal QC and did my Undergraduate Thesis in development of CRISPR protocols in C. albicans in Dr. Whiteway’s lab.
Outside of work, you can find me at a rock climbing gym, obsessing for the perfect pour-over and espresso, or riding with a tiny human on an electric longtail while constantly bemoaning car culture.