Brad Langhorst
Associate Director Of Applications And Product Development
Beverly, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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RockstarBrad Langhorst is an experienced software and product leader with 16 years in applications and product development, currently serving as Associate Director of Applications and Product Development at New England Biolabs. He blends hands-on backend engineering—demonstrated by sustained open-source contributions to prominent bioinformatics projects like Galaxy and MultiQC—with strategic product stewardship and board-level perspective at CoMetrics. His technical work focuses on tool wrappers, data management, and improving reproducible bioinformatics pipelines, often tackling subtle data-handling and visualization issues that improve downstream analysis reliability. Based in Beverly, Massachusetts, he brings a practical, research-aware approach to building tools that bridge lab workflows and production software.
16 years of coding experience
Spanish, English
Github Skills (18)
data-visualizations10
tooling10
python10
data-visualisation10
bioinformatics10
galaxy10
data-visualization10
wrapper10
toolbox9
debugging9
data-management9
samtools9
reporting-services9
toolz9
analyse8
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
galaxyproject/tools-iuc
Mar 2017 - Jun 2022
Tool Shed repositories maintained by the Intergalactic Utilities Commission
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:19 reviews, 79 commits, 34 PRs in 5 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Brad primarily contributed to the data management and tool configuration aspects of the repository. Their work involved modifying data manager scripts, correcting tool links, and addressing whitespace issues. They also implemented features for the ampliconclip tool, improving its functionality and incorporating versioning details. These contributions focused on tool wrappers and data handling within the Galaxy platform.
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bgruening/galaxytools
Apr 2014 - Jul 2019
:microscope::books: Galaxy Tool wrappers
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:24 commits, 7 PRs, 20 comments in 5 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Brad contributed to the `galaxytools` repository by making various changes related to the bismark tool wrappers. Their work includes upgrading bismark, modifying how it handles BAM files, and adjusting the number of threads used. They also fixed syntax errors and updated options for the tool.
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