Benjamin Linard
Researcher In Bioinformatics
Toulouse, Occitania, France
Summary
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RockstarBenjamin Linard is a bioinformatics researcher with nine years of experience developing algorithms and software for pangenomics and metagenomics, currently based at INRAE in Toulouse. He blends academic rigor from a PhD-era research trajectory with practical engineering—contributing as an automation and build engineer to the widely used Bioconda ecosystem to ensure reproducible packaging of bioinformatics tools. His background spans industry and institute roles (SPYGEN, LIRMM, ISEM) where he delivered sequence-analysis software and tackled hard compatibility and testing problems. Comfortable across research and release engineering, he brings a pragmatic focus on robust, testable pipelines that bridge method development and production use.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
English, French, Polish, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (13)
bioinformatics10
bash10
conda10
package-management10
cicd9
cmake9
github-ci8
python8
githubaction-workflow8
jstree6
jquery6
tree6
ant5
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
bioconda/bioconda-recipes
Sep 2019 - Sep 2020
Conda recipes for the bioconda channel.
Role in this project:
Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Automation Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:8 reviews, 4 commits, 25 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Benjamin primarily contributed to the creation and maintenance of recipes for bioinformatics tools within the Bioconda repository. Their work involved defining build and test scripts for various packages, including RAPPAS, catch_chimera, sherpas, epik, and ipk. The user focused on ensuring the packages built correctly within the Conda environment, creating test suites, and configuring the build process for compatibility within the Bioconda ecosystem. This included addressing compilation issues, specifying dependencies, and integrating automated tests.
recipescondabiocondabioinformaticspackage-management
blinard-BIOINFO/bioconda-recipes
May 2020 - Jul 2024
Conda recipes for the bioconda channel.
Contributions:75 pushes, 10 branches in 4 years 2 months
biocondabioinformaticsrecipesconda
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