Flynn O'Connell
New York,NY
Summary
Results-oriented software engineering professional bringing more than 8 years of experience in software design, development and integration with object-oriented approaches. Works well under pressure and consistently exceeds customer expectations with high quality work.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
Work History
Computational Scientist
Rockefeller University
02.2024 - Current
- Developed image processing pipelines complete from the ground up in Python and MATLAB with online documentation suited to process multi-terabyte datasets on non-commercial grade hardware.
- Optimized and documented previously developed pipelines, increasing speed by >10x with a user-friendly 4 step API that facilitates parameter sweeps and data exploration.
- Collaborated with open-source developers and scientific laboratories to apply new algorithms and image processing techniques.
- Facilitated interdisciplinary research projects, merging diverse perspectives to tackle complex scientific questions.
- Organized talks and tutorials to expose users to state-of-the-art software and give developers an avenue to advertise and interact with the community.
- Maintained roles, permissions and user accounts on locally hosted server nodes on Windows Server.
- Developed and tested optimizations on legacy pipelines and implemented user-requested features.
- Established CI/CD pipelines using git workflows and detailed documentation.
Software Engineer
Cornell
09.2023 - 01.2024
- Developed electrophysiological data-analysis pipelines for a variety of experimental conditions with behavioral data and theoretical models.
- Created a low-level graphical user interface using Qt, Python and open-source visualization libraries.
- Built a set of bash tools to deploy tasks for processing datasets at scheduled time-intervals to a high-performance computing cluster.
Research Technician
Binghamton University
12.2018 - 08.2023
- Developed data-analysis pipelines in C++, Python and MATLAB used in 3 peer-reviewed publications.
- Led technical discussions toward better software practices and newer software libraries.
- Contributed to open-source scientific libraries CaImAn, suite2p, numpy, and several others.
- Developed algorithms using information theory as a classification task with C++, Rust, and Python.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Neuroscience
SUNY At Binghamton
Binghamton, NY05.2018
Skills
- Python, C/C, Rust, Shell, Javascript
- Unix, shell scripting, ssh, server configurations
- User-friendly API design
- Image processing and visualization
- Performance and scalability optimization
- Advanced problem solving and analytical skills
- Troubleshooting and debugging
Accomplishments
- Published first author and 2 second author peer-reviewed publications (see personal website).
- Established resource hub and detailed online documentation at https://millerbrainobservatory.github.io/.
- Introduced several laboratories to new open-source resources saving hundreds of hours of in-house development.
Timeline
Computational Scientist
Rockefeller University
02.2024 - Current
Software Engineer
Cornell
09.2023 - 01.2024
Research Technician
Binghamton University
12.2018 - 08.2023
Bachelor of Science - Neuroscience
SUNY At Binghamton
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