# James Gatter

> Data & Software Engineer

Location: Somerville, Massachusetts, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/jamesgatter

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer II @ Cellarity
Jan 2023 – Present | Somerville, Massachusetts, United States

### Software Engineer @ FIS
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States
• Develop a REST API which transforms database queries into transaction report responses for clients
• Diagnose and resolve production issues within a monolithic application that processes millions of transactions per second for thousands of merchants
• Overhaul existing Java backends to add new features in Javascript user-interfaces
• Optimize SQL queries for up to 10-fold improvements in joining and filtering data

### Software Engineer @ Cellarity
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
• Build and host REST APIs on AWS to serve company data and interface with external APIs 
• Design and implement React UI for standardizing upload of assay data and metadata by scientists
• Author Python modules for running data analysis workflows and handling cell line and drug metadata
• Curate public datasets and train multitask machine learning model for making biological predictions on 600 cell lines and 1000 drugs

### Applications Analyst @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Prof. Alex K. Shalek Laboratory Group - 400 Main St., Cambridge MA 02139
• Developed a suite of 8 workflows to afford scientists access to bioinformatic software and analyses on Google Cloud Platform
• Re-engineered a Matlab RNA alignment and quantification program in Python for enhanced performance and maintainability
• Improved user-interface for analysis and visualization of a single-cell database to empower data exploration by the global science community
• Managed organization and archival of sequencing data across a Google Cloud server farm to reduce costs of storage by thousands of dollars per month
• Associated positions: Applications Analyst at Ragon Institute, Affiliate at Broad Institute & Koch Institute

### Intern Researcher @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Prof. John M. Essigmann Laboratory Group - 77 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139
• Devised a Python and Bash pipeline on Oracle Grid Engine to analyze cancer mutation data
• Scripted Python and Bash programs to align raw sequencing data and validate integrity


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (BS) in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (Major), Computer Science (Minor)
University of Massachusetts Amherst


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jamesgatter
- GitHub: https://github.com/jggatter

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Last updated: 2026-03-28