Software Engineers, Data Scientists, ML Engineers, and other computational biotech professionals - What do you do?

Hi All!

I would appreciate a discuss a discussion about what it is that you do on a day-to-day level, what skills you find most pertinent to doing your job, and what you might look at in hiring someone for a similar role.

With a background in Biology and Biochemistry, I am about to get my graduate degree in software engineering. I aiming to build a computational career that leverages my research background in the wet lab life science space into this new career and I want to see how best to build my narrative.

I love programming in general (C++ and Python, mostly) and want to further my skillset and how I can apply what I have learned to life sciences and chemistry. I have built projects for my classes in github, and have built a ML cell-live image analysis pipeline at my workplace (working on moving it to github for my portfolio).

What do you focus in your professional work? Do you build features in a library for other scientists? Do you develop ML models for analysis or prediction? Do you build and maintain your companies internal database? Do you work on High-performance computing to decrease the latency of other work?

How to just get a discussion, be as specific or broad as you like. Also, if you want to speculate on what you would like to work on as well that could be interesting.

Thanks!