Brienna Herold

The New York Times · New York, NY

Built and maintained ELT pipelines processing millions of NYT users' behavioral data, using Fivetran, BigQuery, dbt, Terraform, and Python to integrate data from diverse sources.

Signs of Good Food · Minneapolis, MN

Co-founded a chef-led platform creating ASL-first educational media. Built the website and internal tools (Next.js, Python, Supabase) and designed multi-camera recording and lighting workflows for filming and storing high-quality signing content.

Office of Chief Bilingual Officer, Gallaudet University · Washington, D.C.

Implemented an AWS-based data pipeline in Python to support the creation of an internal sign language recognition product, using video-based model inputs and data ingestion. Analyzed internal consistency of the American Sign Language Placement Test (ASLPT).

Netlify · San Francisco, CA

Worked directly with executive-level stakeholders at a rapidly growing startup to define product direction by building, maintaining, analyzing, and reporting on full-stack data projects, using Python, dbt, and SQL.

School of Science, Technology, Accessibility, Mathematics, and Public Health, Gallaudet University · Washington, D.C.

Evaluated disability bias in deep learning models using Python, performed statistical analyses to evaluate findings, and published and presented a first-author manuscript at an international workshop.

Rochester Institute of Technology · Rochester, NY

Assessed recommendation algorithms to expedite literature search in astrophysics, using Python, natural language processing, and information retrieval technologies.

Knights Lab, University of Minnesota · Minneapolis, MN

Analyzed how different sequencing technologies affect strain-level metagenomic DNA assembly, using Python, to help define best practices for elucidating links between the gut microbiome and health.

University of Bonn (NSF IRES #1559450) · Bonn, Germany

Created and evaluated an index that assesses how disaster risk reduction geographic information capacities vary within Germany and from country to country, in collaboration with the United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security.

University of Rochester Medical Center · Rochester, NY

Developed a biochemical feature vector, using Mathematica, to characterize antigenic similarity of influenza hemagglutinin proteins for use in a hybrid experimental-computational model predicting individual influenza vaccine responses in large-scale clinical studies.

National Technical Institute for the Deaf, Rochester Institute of Technology · Rochester, NY

Worked with a team of 5 to design and develop an open source software suite for local deaf communities to create bilingual digital books for children using folktales from their local cultures. Finalist in All Children Reading: Sign On For Literacy Prize ($150,000).

National Institutes of Health · Bethesda, MD

Studied the biochemical pharmacology of ligand interactions with the capsaicin receptor TRPV1, an initial step in drug development for treating TRPV1-mediated chronic pain.