Senior Software Developer · PhD
I'm a senior software developer based in Tampa, FL.
My career started as a developer at the University of South Florida. I worked on a diverse set of tasks, including building web mapping applications, serving GIS data, and shipping hybrid mobile application for the National Park Service. I also worked with the USF Herbarium on a developing a species catalog of the campus flora and fungi.
I earned my PhD in Molecular Biology from USF in 2021. I researched molecular phylogenetics and systematics of the boletes. Throughout my degree, I kept writing programs, but this time on the analytical side of software. After graduating, I came back to work in software full-time.
Currently, I work as a full-stack engineer on B2B SaaS. Outside of that I spend most of my time writing Rust and Golang.
This blog is a mix of things: projects I find interesting, ideas worth writing out, and topics from software or biology I want to explain to a general audience.
I also rock climb and run!
You can reach me on LinkedIn or find my code on GitHub and Codeberg.
sqlite-fastx sqlite-fastx is a SQLite extension that enables querying FASTA/FASTQ genomic sequence files.
Written in Rust, it uses virtual tables (via sqlite3_ext) to enable pushdown filtering, gzip decompression, and indexed lookups. It also provides a suite of bioinformatics functions, like gc_content(), n50(), and reverse_complement().
Neotropical Clavulina: Two new species from Mexico and a re-evaluation of Clavulina floridana Salas-Lizana R. et al. (incl. Farid A.) — Mycologia, 115(1), 2023. doi:10.1080/00275514.2022.2148191
Sharpening plant taxonomy in South Florida: Baccharis and Melanthera (Asteraceae), Borreria and Chiococca (Rubiaceae), and Lantana (Verbenaceae) Franck A.R., Gann G.D., Sadle J., Farid A. — Phytologia, 103(2), 2021. phytologia.org
Expansion of the genus Imleria in North America to include Imleria floridana, sp. nov., and Imleria pallida, comb. nov. Farid A., Franck A.R., Bolin J., Garey J.R. — Mycologia, 112(2), 2020. doi:10.1080/00275514.2019.1685359
Fungal Planet description sheets: 1042–1111 Crous P.W. et al. (incl. Farid A.) — Persoonia, 44, 2020. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Many species of the Carnivora consume grass and other fibrous plant tissues Franck A.R., Farid A. — Belgian Journal of Zoology, 150, 2020. belgianjournalofzoology.eu
Validation of two fungal names in Marasmius Fr. (Marasmiaceae) Guard F.E., Barrett M.D., Farid A. et al. — Journal of Adelaide Botanic Gardens, 33, 2019. environment.sa.gov.au
Boletus rubricitrinus belongs in Pulchroboletus (Boletaceae) Farid A., Franck A.R., Garey J.R. — Czech Mycology, 69(2), 2017. doi:10.33585/cmy.69204