Andrew Duncan
Student at University of Toronto
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Duncan is a PhD candidate in Cell & Systems Biology at the University of Toronto with 11 years of hands-on software engineering experience, primarily building bioinformatics and research software at the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research. He blends computational biology knowledge from his PhD and a BCS in Bioinformatics with practical engineering skills developed through multiple coop and developer roles, delivering production-ready tools for cancer research. Comfortable across the stack, Andrew has a track record of translating biological questions into reproducible software and data science solutions, backed by certificates in biomedical fundamentals and data science. Based in Old Toronto, he brings uncommon depth for a graduate student: a decade of institutional software experience focused on bridging lab needs and scalable code.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate, Fundamentals of Biomedical Sciences I, Certificate, Fundamentals of Biomedical Sciences I at University of Toronto School of Continuing StudiesDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Cell and Systems Biology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Cell and Systems Biology at University of TorontoCertificate, Data Science, Certificate, Data Science at University of GuelphBachelor of Computer Science, Bioinformatics Option, Honours, Cooperative Program, Bioinformatics, Bachelor of Computer Science, Bioinformatics Option, Honours, Cooperative Program, Bioinformatics at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (112)
dockstore10
infrastructure10
core-package10
genomics10
gdc10
nextflow10
angular10
transition10
wdl10
docker10
visualization10
user-interface10
plugin10
jbrowse10
bioinformatics10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
LincolnSteinLab/icgc-viewer
Jun 2018 - Aug 2020
A JBrowse plugin for viewing ICGC Data
Contributions:8 releases, 136 PRs, 274 pushes in 2 years 2 months
genome-browsericgc-portalplugincancerjbrowse
agduncan94/md5sum
Feb 2018 - Jul 2020
Contributions:1 release, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
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