Abhinav Sharma
Data Scientist
Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Summary
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RockstarAbhinav Sharma is a Data Scientist with a decade of experience applying data engineering and cloud integrations to genomics and bioinformatics workflows from Cape Town. He contributes actively to prominent open-source projects like Nextflow and nf-core, where he blends QA, test automation, DevOps and technical writing to improve reproducibility and Azure/AWS cloud support for large-scale pipelines. Comfortable spanning code, documentation and infrastructure, he’s fixed container and batch-file issues and added registry and workspace configuration guidance that benefit the broader community. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, he brings a mix of hands-on testing, cloud-native deployment knowledge, and domain expertise in genomics to deliver reliable, production-ready data pipelines.
10 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (30)
go-modules10
reproducible-research10
groovy10
testing10
workflow-engine10
kernel-module10
nextflow10
workflow-automation10
pipeline10
jsmodules10
argo-workflows10
nf-core10
documentation10
dsl9
cloud-computing9
Programming languages (44)
Github contributions (5)
nf-core/modules
Nov 2020 - Jan 2022
Repository to host tool-specific module files for the Nextflow DSL2 community!
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:54 reviews, 23 commits, 19 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Abhinav primarily contributed to the `nf-core/modules` repository by creating and modifying test cases for various bioinformatics tools. Their commits involve modifying test files to ensure compatibility and functionality of the modules, including adapting tests to pass and refactoring test code. This work includes updating tests to reflect changes in the modules and ensuring the integrity of the modules within the Nextflow workflow.
nf-corehostnextflow-dsl2nextflowdsl2
nextflow-io/nextflow
Nov 2019 - Jan 2023
A DSL for data-driven computational pipelines
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & Technical Writer
DevOps Engineer & Technical WriterContributions:78 reviews, 60 commits, 44 PRs in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Abhinav primarily contributed to the improvement and documentation of the Nextflow framework. Their contributions involved updating documentation related to configuration and features, such as adding information on the workspace setting, Azure registry settings and mamba support for Conda. Moreover, they addressed bugs, introduced new features, and optimized code associated with the infrastructure and cloud integrations with Azure, AWS and other services. They also fixed issues related to the Azure Batch file copy strategy and container configuration.
singularity-containersbioinformaticsawsdataflowslurm
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