Bob Freeman
Co-Coordinator, People Network
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBob Freeman is a research computing and data leader with 11+ years driving campus and national-scale RCD programs and a career rooted in life-science research and bioinformatics. He builds and operationalizes researcher-facing services—onboarding faculty, designing cloud data-science PoCs, and scaling HPC and data platforms—to turn technical capability into measurable research outcomes. As co-coordinator of CaRCC’s People Network he coordinates a 35-person leadership team and engages ~2,000 RCD professionals, while also leading cross-institution NSF facilitation work that advances community practice. He founded and runs a bioinformatics technology firm, bringing product-minded UX and data-compliance discipline to academic and industry clients. A hands-on practitioner who began in molecular biology and genomics, he marries wet-lab experience and PhD-level domain knowledge with systems, training, and facilitation skills to “teach researchers to fish” and embed sustainable workflows.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Virology, Ph.D. Virology at Harvard UniversityA.B. Molecular Biology, A.B. Molecular Biology at Princeton University
Github Skills (61)
ref10
genomics10
continuous-testing9
alpha9
mer9
stable9
lmod9
bioinformatics9
continuous-integration8
graph-traversal8
gitkraken8
data-science8
continuous-delivery7
minhash7
count-min-sketch7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
IQSS/datafest
Jan 2017 - Jan 2020
Materials and code for Harvard DataFest workshop
Contributions:186 commits, 2 PRs, 67 pushes in 3 years 1 month
datafestharvardworkshopdata-science
datacarpentry/DEPRECATED-cloud-genomics-orig
Mar 2015 - Apr 2017
Contributions:63 commits, 8 PRs, 14 pushes in 2 years 1 month
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