# Ellen Smalley

> Software Engineer

Location: Greater Boston, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/ellensmalley

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Grow Therapy
Jan 2024 – Present

### Software Engineer III @ Ginkgo Bioworks, Inc.
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States
• Created a greenfield web application to search and navigate biological relationships between internal related assets such as strains, molecules, and assays.
• ETL'd entities from 6 distinct datasources. Entities were deduplicated, validated, and enriched with data from external datasources.
• Created new data models for missing core biological concepts such as proteins and pathways.

### Software Engineer II @ Ginkgo Bioworks, Inc.
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Bridged gaps between the needs of scientists and current software solutions by creating a frontend for verifying strain construction, writing various scripts for scraping data needed in patent filing, and integrating bioinformatics tools and lab instrument file parsers into data pipelines.

### Software Engineer I @ Ginkgo Bioworks, Inc.
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States

### Software Engineering Analyst @ Goldman Sachs
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | New York, New York, United States
• Built a system to track and quantify security vulnerabilities according to industry standard CVSS scoring
• Full Stack web development using the React framework for JavaScript and a Java based service for the UI, a DB2 relational database, and an Elastic Search cluster

### Research Assistant @ Chris Bailey-Kellogg Lab
Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | Dartmouth College
• Work culminated in an Honors Thesis
• Developed a protein domain decomposition algorithm based on Monte Carlo simulated annealing
• Leveraged algorithm for computational design of vaccine epitopes for multiple diseases including Flu, Dengue, and HIV 
• Created a scoring technique for the stability of vaccine molecules based on statistical analysis of conserved residues

### Engineering Summer Analyst @ Goldman Sachs
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Greater New York City Area
Technology Risk


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Biology, Mathematics
Dartmouth College


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ellensmalley

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Last updated: 2026-03-28