Clay McLeod's Resume

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital — Memphis, TN

• Designed and built the St. Jude Cloud pediatric cancer data ecosystem from the ground up. Hired and directed the team of product managers, designers, scientists, and engineers that built the platform. St. Jude Cloud is a Blue Sky project at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, winner of the Microsoft Innovation Award, and a Finalist for FastCompany's World Changing Ideas in AI and Big Data. Learn more about the St. Jude Cloud by reading our paper in Cancer Discovery.
• Author of learngenomics.dev (300+ stars on GitHub), a project that aims to teach software engineers the basics of genomics and epigenomics.
• Author of St. Jude Rust Labs, a project that aims to provide a solid foundation for the next-generation of genomics software development using Rust.
• Led the charge for and, alongside other data science leaders, architected the new data science career ladder for ~250 data scientists at St. Jude.
• Analyzed, harmonized, and maintained the largest whole-genome sequence repository in the world, including providing access to ~1.5Pb of genomics data to 250+ labs across the world in pursuit of cures for children afflicted with catastrophic diseases.
• Received the 2019 Amos Jacobs award (employee of the year), the highest award given to employees at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Received two additional gold ovation awards during my time at St. Jude.

University of Mississippi — Oxford, MS