Aaron Petkau
Bioinformatician
Summary
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RockstarAaron Petkau is a seasoned bioinformatician with 16 years of experience, currently applying computational genomics and public-health analytics at the Public Health Agency of Canada. He brings deep domain expertise in pathogen genomics, epidemiological data integration, and reproducible workflows to support surveillance and outbreak response. Comfortable at the intersection of biology and software, he translates complex sequencing data into actionable public-health insights and policy-ready reports. Known for pragmatic tool-building and fostering collaboration across lab and informatics teams, he prioritizes reproducibility and auditability in pipelines used for critical decision-making. Though not broadly public-facing on GitHub, his steady long-term role in a national agency signals a focus on operational reliability and impact over novelty.
16 years of coding experience
Github Skills (108)
package-management10
databases10
genomics10
bacteria10
clustering10
nextflow10
bioconda10
database10
genome10
conda10
metagenomics10
visualization10
bioinformatics10
treeview10
ncbi9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
phac-nml/irida-sistr-results
Sep 2017 - Dec 2020
Compile results generated from SISTR within IRIDA
Contributions:3 releases, 1 review, 8 PRs in 3 years 3 months
iridacompilesistr
phac-nml/snvphyl-galaxy
Jul 2014 - Oct 2022
SNVPhyl whole genome phylogenomics pipeline.
Contributions:1 review, 411 commits, 26 PRs in 8 years 4 months
genomepipelinephylogenomicsphylogenomics-pipelinegenomics
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