# Stela Palii

> Senior software engineer, VERSANT Media - Fandango at Home

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/stela

Software engineer with a background in experimental biology and bioinformatics

Skills/Tools/Technologies: 
JavaScript, Java, React, Redux, HTML5, CSS3, Materialize/Semantic UI, TypeScript, Mocha/Chai, postgres, Vagrant, AWS, Docker.

## Work Experience
### Senior Front-End Software Engineer @ Fandango at Home
Jan 2024 – Present

### Front-end software engineer @ Fandango at Home
Jan 2018 – Present | Sunnyvale, CA

### Bioinformatics Researcher, De novo genome assembly @ University of Florida
Jan 2014 – Jan 2018 | Gainesville, Florida Area
Contributed   to   multiple   genomics   projects   (de   novo   and   re-sequencing   genome assemblies).   Completed   the   gap-filling   and   refining   of   the   Amborella   genome   as   part of   a   multi-laboratory   collaboration.   Completed      the   de   novo   assembly   of   the   water  lily genome.  Wrote   and   used   shell,  Python, Java,  and   R   scripts   to   clean   up,   curate,   analyze   and   plot graphs   for   genomic   data   sets.   Performed   bioinformatics   analyses   with   Falcon,   Canu, SMRTpipe,   PBJelly   on   UF   HPC.   Manuscripts   describing   this   work   are   in   preparation.

### Web development immersive student/full-stack engineer @ Galvanize - San Francisco, SoMa
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area
◎ Built and deployed full-stack JavaScript applications
◎ Worked on the Databraid open-source multiple-widget dashboard application
◎ Built SPAs using React, Redux, and Semantic UI 
◎ Configured Redux store for widgets
◎ Used Jest and Enzyme for testing purposes
◎ Incorporated Flow into the code base for static type-checking
◎ Deployed widget and dashboard SPA with AWS EC2/ECS
◎ Published NPM packages for widgets
◎ Integrated NPM packages into dashboard

### Postdoctoral Researcher, Environmental stress and cancer @ NIEHS
Jan 2008 – Jan 2014
Functional   genomics   and   molecular   biology   project   focusing   on   synthetic   lethal   gene relationships   in   cancer , where I served   as tech   lead   of   the   project,   performed   large   data   set   analysis   with   biostatistics   and bioinformatics   tools.   Wrote   and   used   perl   and   shell   scripts   to   get   and   clean   data.


## Education
### PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
University of Florida College of Medicine

### Web Development Immersive
Galvanize - San Francisco, SoMa


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

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Source: https://flows.cv/stela
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/stela/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-04-10