Brett Bowman
Senior Bioinformatics Scientist
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrett Bowman is a Senior Bioinformatics Scientist in San Diego with 13 years in biotech and over 8 years of software engineering experience, currently shaping sequencing analytics at Illumina. He bridges wet-lab biology and production-grade software, having led algorithm and tool rewrites in C++ for long-read analysis and shipped novel pipelines for phased amplicon and methylation motif calling. As a co-founder he built proprietary tools for Oxford Nanopore phasing and contributed a Partial-Order Aligner in Rust to the public bioinformatics ecosystem, and he’s an active contributor to the widely used MultiQC project improving plotting and DRAGEN support. Equally fluent prototyping in Python and engineering performant C++ systems, he combines rigorous research output with practical product delivery and a continual appetite for new languages and ML tooling.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
University of California San DiegoSan Diego State University
English
Github Skills (6)
data-visualizations10
bioinformatics10
data-visualization10
data-visualisation10
python10
data-analysis8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
MultiQC/MultiQC
May 2020 - Jun 2022
Aggregate results from bioinformatics analyses across many samples into a single report.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:48 commits, 3 PRs, 3 comments in 2 years
Contributions summary:Brett primarily focused on bug fixes and refactoring within the `multiqc/multiqc` repository. Their contributions involved modifying Python code related to data processing, plotting, and reporting, particularly in the context of bioinformatics analysis and quality control. Key changes included fixes to boxplot visualizations, adjustments to DRAGEN-FastQC module, and improvements to handle edge cases and potential errors related to data handling and plotting. The user also refactored DRAGEN-FastQC support.
multiqcpythonpypianalysesbioconda
bnbowman/HlaTools
Jul 2013 - Aug 2016
Contributions:64 commits, 8 pushes, 4 comments in 3 years 1 month
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