Charlie Bushman
Software Engineer at WHOOP
Greater Boston United States
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Top SchoolCharlie Bushman is a software engineer with a decade of experience building reproducible, open-source tools for metagenomics and cloud-native automation. As the sole developer for the Penn-CHOP Microbiome Program, he has led major upgrades to the Sunbeam metagenomic pipeline, authored numerous extensions for virus discovery and bacterial analysis, and implemented data/metadata management and automation that power reproducible research workflows. He blends hands-on engineering in bioinformatics with practical cloud guidance—helping labs migrate to AWS and adopt low-complexity, maintainable deployments. Now on the Hardware Accelerate team at WHOOP, he applies his systems and pipeline expertise to device-focused engineering challenges. Notably, some of his early projects (an order-fulfillment database and long-lived internal tools) remain in production years later, reflecting a focus on durable, user-centered solutions.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Marblehead High SchoolBachelor of Arts - BA Physics, Bachelor of Arts - BA Physics at Carleton CollegeChinese Studies, Chinese Studies at Harbin Institute of Technology
Latin, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (116)
snakemake10
package-management10
barcodes10
conda10
metagenomics10
reproducible-research10
bioinformatics10
data-files9
data-storage9
bioconda9
python9
genomes9
manim9
variable-selection9
r-package9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
Ulthran/GoPWebsite
Nov 2019 - Apr 2021
A website for the GoP
Contributions:10 PRs, 39 pushes, 10 branches in 1 year 5 months
golanggop
Ulthran/mortar
Nov 2023 - Feb 2026
Contributions:24 PRs, 27 pushes, 25 branches in 2 years 3 months
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