Alex Manuele
Senior Software Engineer at BenchSci
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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Top SchoolAlex Manuele is a Senior Software Engineer based in Halifax with eight years of experience building cloud-driven ETL pipelines, full-stack web applications, and user-friendly bioinformatics tools. He blends academic rigor—an MCS focused on representation learning for microbial DNA—with practical engineering at BenchSci and Dalhousie, where he led small-team projects and contributed to database and analytics platforms. Comfortable across backend, frontend, and data engineering, he has a particular interest in deep-learning feature extraction for metagenomic data and has delivered reproducible science tooling using Django/Postgres. He’s mentored co-op students and co-supervised research, translating domain expertise in biochemistry and microbiology into applied software solutions. Outside work he pursues ambitious side projects—from web scrapers to game mods—that reflect a curiosity for new programming paradigms and rapid prototyping.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Dalhousie University
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Github Skills (52)
metagenomics10
reproducible-research9
nextflow9
unify9
pipeline9
android-app9
bioinformatics9
genomics9
amr8
ecology7
html6
orange6
sequence6
django-static-files6
google-chrome6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
alexmanuele/QUOREM
Jun 2019 - Nov 2020
QUOR'EM: Query, Update, Organize, and Render 'EM
Contributions:8 PRs, 172 pushes, 8 branches in 1 year 4 months
queryrenderorganizeupdate
beiko-lab/arete
Aug 2021 - Oct 2022
AMR/VF LGT focused bacterial genomics analysis workflow
Contributions:51 commits, 3 PRs, 2 pushes in 1 year 1 month
workflowpipelinegenomicsbioinformaticsfocused
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