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.
• Chief architect of the CCDI Federation API—a national infrastructure effort under the Childhood Cancer Data Initiative to make pediatric cancer research data more discoverable (explore the API). The project is a collaboration between the National Cancer Institute (NCI/NIH), the Kids First Data Resource Center (Children's Hospital of Philadelphia), the Pediatric Cancer Data Commons (University of Chicago), the Treehouse Childhood Cancer Data Initiative (University of California, Santa Cruz), and St. Jude Cloud (St. Jude Children's Research Hospital). Read the press release to learn more.
• Creator of St. Jude Rust Labs, a project that aims to provide a solid foundation for the next-generation of genomics software development using Rust. Notable projects produced by St. Jude Rust Labs include Sprocket, Crankshaft, and Atlas.
• Led the charge for and architected the new data science career ladder at St. Jude that affected roughly 250 data scientists.
• Author of learngenomics.dev (350+ stars on GitHub), a project that aims to teach software engineers the basics of genomics and epigenomics.
• 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