Patricia (PK) Penton

Software engineer. Former microbiologist. I love dogs, Jackie Kennedy, nutrition, fitness, & automating things.

[Patricia (PK) Penton @pkpenton]

What is #DNA and why do we care about it? I had so much fun explaining this topic for the @23andMe Education Team's #DNAdownload video series! https://t.co/agL88WffIJ via @YouTube #genetics #science #education

[Kevin Naughton Jr. @KevinNaughtonJr]

when your 87 step CI/CD pipeline successfully deploys

[Patricia (PK) Penton @pkpenton]

@GeneFoodHQ Would love to see a debate/friendly discussion with @Drlipid and @SinatraMD or Dr. Ronald Krauss - let's make it happen @GeneFoodHQ 😀

[Patricia (PK) Penton @pkpenton]

What does a private attribute of a wrapper class say?
... "U can't touch this" 😂🤓

#SoftwareEngineering #jokes #punny #Java #webdevelopment

[Patricia (PK) Penton @pkpenton]

Nit: stop saying "nit" on PRs. It's either important enough to bring up, or it's not.

#SoftwareEngineer #softwaredevelopment #webdevelopment #webdeveloper #python #javascript #codereview #nit

[Patricia (PK) Penton @pkpenton]

@Snarik Still better than JavaScript 😂😂

[Patricia (PK) Penton @pkpenton]

I'll say it again: #python list/dict comprehensions should only be 1 line. Beyond that, they become difficult to understand, harder to debug, and fall short of the potential elegance of python. Do you agree?

#SoftwareEngineer #SoftwareDeveloper #programming

[Patricia (PK) Penton @pkpenton]

Learn how the @23andMe Engineering Team uses Celery to execute tasks for both customer-facing websites and backend compute pipelines!

#celery #bigdata #data #aws #cloudformation #software #SoftwareArchitecture #taskqueue #rabbitmq

https://t.co/ZWkecFdmSM

[Patricia (PK) Penton @pkpenton]

Developing safe and reliable ML products at 23andMe by 23andMe Engineering https://t.co/FDuAJ2lY7u

[Patricia (PK) Penton @pkpenton]

Introduction to Nextflow by 23andMe Engineering https://t.co/BAb8v1Do01

#nexflow #engineering #bigdata #softwaredevelopment #software #groovy #python

[Patricia (PK) Penton @pkpenton]

@snowbringer Please post a finished pic!! 😍

[Patricia (PK) Penton @pkpenton]

Processing Large Files through Unix pipeline in AWS Lambda Function by 23andMe Engineering https://t.co/JNHI7Onsug

[Patricia (PK) Penton @pkpenton]

Reducing AWS EMR costs with Spot, Task Nodes, and Instance Types from the @23andme Engineering Blog https://t.co/rgEQv13c3G

#aws #SoftwareEngineering #emr #ec2 #computerscience #engineering #software #computing #bigdata

[Patricia (PK) Penton @pkpenton]

git commit -m "I did not do this"

Definitely in my top 10 favorite #git commit messages 😂

#SoftwareEngineering #softwaredevelopment #webdevelopment #webdeveloper #python #javascript #java #html #css

[Patricia (PK) Penton @pkpenton]

High-performance genetic datastore on AWS S3 using Parquet and Arrow by 23andMe Engineering https://t.co/ei1us3ahbh

#SoftwareEngineering #Bioinformatics #Parquet #AWS #Engineering #Genetics #Data #DataStorage

[Akshar Pathak @AksharPathak]

mom saying 'if you're with your friends then make me talk to one of them' was the original 2-factor authentication

[Patricia (PK) Penton @pkpenton]

Anyone else have to do a quick Google search every time they convert a string or datetime object to see if they're supposed to use strftime or strptime? Or is it just me?

#python #softwareengineer #webdevelopment #webdeveloper #datetime #webdev #programming

[Patricia (PK) Penton @pkpenton]

Read this article if you're a software engineer interested in genetic data storage: High-performance genetic datastore on AWS S3 using Parquet and Arrow by @23andMe Engineering https://t.co/nW5AHXMWrG

#SoftwareEngineering #bioinformatics #parquet #arrow #python #aws #s3 #s3data

[Patricia (PK) Penton @pkpenton]

A great article from the @23andMe Engineering Team about web #accessibility -- "Accessibility and Me" by Joe Banks, Tech Lead at 23andMe https://t.co/RMZARvmO6c

#webdev #Webdesigner #SoftwareDeveloper #html

[Patricia (PK) Penton @pkpenton]

Actual git commit messages I've made in the last 2 hours:

"try this"
"what am i doing i dont know anymore"
"what is life"

#softwareengineer #software #engineer #webdevelopment #webdev #python #javascript #java #aws #tech #siliconvalley

[Patricia (PK) Penton @pkpenton]

If 2020 was a software program built by engineers: "It worked when we tested it locally!"

#Software #SoftwareEngineer #SWE #webdev #webdevelopment #tech #compsci #computerscience #testdrivendevelopment #python #javascript #java