Kylee Degatano
About Kylee Degatano
Kylee Degatano is a Senior Software Product Manager at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, where she has worked since 2013. She specializes in genomic data analysis and has contributed to significant projects, including the All of Us initiative.
Work at Broad Institute
Kylee Degatano has served as a Senior Software Product Manager at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard since 2013. In this role, she has been instrumental in managing the development of innovative software products, including a new product for joint calling genomes at an unprecedented scale. This initiative supports the All of Us project, which aims to deliver callsets for approximately 100,000 human genomes. Additionally, she has played a key role in integrating genomic joint calling and variant search products with the Terra platform.
Education and Expertise
Kylee Degatano pursued her education at several institutions. She studied Bioinformatics at Boston University from 2012 to 2013. Prior to that, she earned a Bachelor of Science in Engineering (BSE) in Engineering Science, Biotechnology, and Computer Science from Tufts University between 2008 and 2011. She also attended Harvard Extension School, where she studied Software Engineering from 2014 to 2016. Her academic background provides a strong foundation for her work in software product management and bioinformatics.
Background in Research
Before her current position, Kylee Degatano worked as a PhD student at Boston University from 2012 to 2013. She also gained experience as a Research Student in the Biomedical Engineering Department at Tufts University in 2011. These roles contributed to her understanding of complex scientific data and analysis pipelines, which she now applies in her current position at the Broad Institute.
Achievements in Software Development
Kylee Degatano has overseen the creation of WARP, a portfolio of open-source scientific data processing pipelines. These pipelines are published on platforms such as GitHub, Dockstore, and Terra, making them accessible to the scientific community. She presented at BOSC 2021, where she highlighted the impact of the WARP pipelines on scientific research and collaboration.
Project Management and Analysis Pipelines
In her role at the Broad Institute, Kylee Degatano is responsible for understanding and prioritizing the requirements of over 15 different analysis pipelines. These pipelines cover a wide range of data types, including genomes, exomes, and single-cell transcriptomics. Her ability to manage these diverse requirements is crucial for the successful development and implementation of software products in the bioinformatics field.