Marissa Fisher

Experience

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  University of Alberta

  Apr 2014 - Aug 2016

  Medical Physics Assistant Researcher

  - Assistant researcher at the Alberta Cross Cancer Institute in the department of medical physics under Dr. Atiyah Yahya- Developed a quantification method for cancer-related metabolites in the brain using magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) with a Point-Resolved Spectroscopy Sequence (PRESS)- Performed computational analysis of MR data using MATLAB- Gained experience in signal processing with a 9.4 T MR scanner and related electronic equipment- Presented our findings at the Cross Cancer student research symposium in August 2014 and at the Alberta Imaging Symposium in June 2016- This research was published by NMR in Biomedicine in August 2016 (linked below) Show less

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  MediaMath

  Jun 2015 - Aug 2015

  Systems Engineering Intern

  - Worked with a team of computer scientists and engineers to develop a new machine learning based method for recommending products to web users- To achieve this, we utilized an Alternating Least Square (ALS) Matrix Factorization algorithm, Scala, Apache Spark, and AWS S3 buckets- The project was completed and presented at a company tech demo in August 2015

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  MediaMath

  Aug 2016 - Nov 2019

  Software Engineer

  Specialized in Python, PostgreSQL, AWS/cloud computing, APIs, Git, shell scripting, CD/CI workflows, testing, logging, and alerting methods, as well as writing Service Level Objectives (SLO’s)Experienced with JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and React on the front endDesigned, developed, and maintained systems that supported MediaMath’s TerminalOne platform

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  Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

  Nov 2019 - now

  Specialized in clinical reporting software utilizing cloud resources. Namely polygenic risk pipelines and the diagnostic testing pipelines, including the Broad Institute's Covid-19 testing pipeline which processed over 100,000 Covid-19 qPCR tests per day during the pandemic.

  • Principal Software Engineer

    Aug 2022 - now

  • Senior Software Engineer

    Oct 2020 - Aug 2022

  • Software Engineer

    Nov 2019 - Oct 2020