# Li McCarthy

> Senior Software Engineer at Intellia Therapeutics

Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/limccarthy

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer II @ Intellia Therapeutics, Inc.
Jan 2025 – Present

### Senior Software Engineer @ Intellia Therapeutics, Inc.
Jan 2025 – Jan 2025

### Software Engineer III @ Intellia Therapeutics, Inc.
Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Lead Experimental Design & Tracking team to streamline samples registration and tracking through automated lab processes including NGS. Work closely with Automation Engineers to map processes at the granularity of well-to-well liquid transfers, supporting hundreds of plates per month. 
- Designed schema for and implemented a sample registry to replace a purchased SAAS solution, saving hundreds of thousands of dollars yearly. 
- Build and deploy containerized services utilizing AWS ECS. Support multiple production applications and internal web portal. 
- Engage cross-functionally with stakeholders including automation, preclincal development, and research to deliver practical solutions to everyday problems in the therapeutics space.
- Pilot adoption of Prefect and build automated deployments and production flows. 
- Administrate AWS resources using Terraform. 
- Author documents for AI project intake, conduct informational and training sessions, provide targeted support for prompt engineering, guidelines, and responsible usage.

### Software Engineer @ Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023
- Lead development on a clinical report delivery pipeline, building cloud-based infrastructure
for delivering genetic risk assessment reports to 25,000 participants. Establish testing, CI, and
documentation best practices.
- Collaborated with external partners, lead requirement engineering, and wrote and prioritized
tasks for sprints.
- Developed internal web portals and APIs to facilitate secure and efficient transfer of sensitive
data.
- Implemented, tested, and maintained new features for Broad COVID-19 testing pipelines.
- Software Engineering Steering Committee member

### Software Engineer II @ NanoView Biosciences
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021
- Developed for customer-facing data analysis software, distributed internationally. 
- Developed instrument control software for flagship instrument.
- Visualized data and developed edge detection and particle tracking algorithms for internal use. 
- Engineered requirements with internal R&D team and external clients.

### Software Engineer @ NanoView Biosciences
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021

### Graduate Student @ Northeastern University Khoury College of Computer Sciences
Jan 2017 – Jan 2020
- Algorithms
- Data Mining Techniques
- Database Management Systems 
- Machine Learning
- Managing Software Development
- Object-Oriented Design
- Web Development

### Graduate Teaching Assistant @ Northeastern University Khoury College of Computer Sciences
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018
Instructed on topics such as object-oriented design patterns and testing strategies during lab sessions

### Research Assistant @ Northeastern University
Jan 2013 – Jan 2017 | Boston, Massachusetts
Perform experiments in visual psychophysics for research in modeling of higher-order visual processing of color with data analysis in Mathematica.

### Research Assistant Intern @ Moderna Therapeutics
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016
Early discovery research on cardiovascular disease targets using novel mRNA technology.

### Research Assistant Intern @ Pfizer
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Cambridge, Massachusetts
Molecular biology research in the Neuroscience division: investigating novel targets using in vitro and ex vivo techniques including RNA and protein analysis, lentiviral transduction, immunocytochemistry, confocal microscopy. etc.

### Lab Assistant Intern @ Harvard Medical School
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Boston, Massachusetts
Undergraduate researcher in Reid lab, neuronal connectomics in CATMAID and transmission electron microscopy.

### Research Assistant Intern @ Stanford University
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Palo Alto, California
Neuronal biophysics undergraduate researcher in Cui lab, focus on molecular cloning for study of optogenetic control of the CRY-CIB1 protein pair.  Work included plasmid design, PCR, transfection, and confocal microscopy.


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science
Northeastern University

### Bachelor of Science (BS) in Behavioral Neuroscience
Northeastern University


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-31