Billy Law
Software Engineer (Bioinformatics)
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolBilly Law is a software engineer specializing in bioinformatics and parallel architectures, with eight years of experience building scalable data-processing systems. Currently at The Hospital for Sick Children, he co-invented MetaPro! and architects tools for metagenomics and metatranscriptomics that routinely handle multi-gigabyte pipelines. His background spans FPGA acceleration, experimental parallel-processing platforms, and performance-sensitive C++ systems, giving him deep expertise in low-latency and high-throughput designs. He also runs a self-funded trading collective where he develops Python-based automated trading, real-time risk engines, and proprietary strategy libraries—demonstrating a rare blend of scientific computing and production finance. Comfortable with Docker, Pandas, scikit-learn, OpenCL and Postgres, he pairs rigorous academic training (MASc, McMaster) with hands-on engineering across research and industry. Colleagues rely on him for turning complex data and hardware constraints into auditable, high-performance software.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
MASc, Software Engineering, 3.8/4, MASc, Software Engineering, 3.8/4 at McMaster University
Github Skills (16)
ncbi10
bioinformatics9
meta8
genomics7
transcript6
sequencing6
genome-assembly6
adapter5
nextflow5
next-generation-sequencing5
illumina5
pipeline4
assembler3
metagenomics2
database2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ParkinsonLab/Metatranscriptome-Workshop
May 2018 - Mar 2020
Metatranscriptomics Tutorial
Contributions:4 commits, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 1 year 10 months
bioinformaticsncbimetatranscriptomics
ParkinsonLab/MetaPro
Oct 2018 - Jan 2023
Contributions:30 releases, 47 commits, 2 PRs in 4 years 4 months
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