Hi! I’m Salena, and I'm passionate about tackling real challenges through interdisciplinary approaches. I think a lot about personalized & preventative medicine, cybersecurity, and promoting a circular economy in the fashion industry.

Experience

Virtual Discovery, IncChief Executive Officer

2022 — Now

Supporting biotech, pharma, and academic labs discover better drugs.

Virtual Discovery spun out of the Wagner Lab at Harvard Medical School in 2020 with the goal of reimaging drug discovery. Over the past 6 years, we have collaborated on 10s of projects across numerous indications. We leverage computational chemistry and cutting-edge tech to make the process of discovering and optimizing leads faster and more efficient

SplunkSoftware Engineer

2023 — 2025

Tenant Services Team - Worked on a layer zero cloud service, doing anything from DNS resolution to automated customer data migration

Spaulding Rehabilitation HospitalResearch Assistant

2022 — 2023

Research assistant at the Motion Analysis Lab, advised by Dr. Paolo Bonato. Completed Undergraduate Thesis: “Automated Interpretable Assessment of Tai Chi Exercise Proficiency with Machine Learning, Biomechanics, and Data Visualization"

SplunkSoftware Engineer Intern

2022 — 2022

Worked on Cloud O11y team to develop a feature that enables SLI/SLO metadata to be easily accessed