Bryce Kille
Senior Bioinformatics Scientist
Houston, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBryce Kille is a Senior Bioinformatics Scientist with nine years of experience building scalable algorithms and software for genomic sequence analysis, now based in Houston and working at Illumina. His work spans pathogen detection, variant calling, alignment-based and alignment-free methods, and multi-set membership detection, with a research track that culminated in a PhD from Rice University. He has a strong software-engineering background—having collaborated on a C++ bitwise-data library and contributed DevOps/build automation fixes to the widely used bioconda-recipes ecosystem—bridging low-level performance work with production bioinformatics tooling. Known for pragmatic, platform-aware engineering, he routinely addresses cross-platform build and parallelism issues to make research software robust and deployable.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Rice UniversityMaster of Science - MS Computer Science & Bioinformatics, Master of Science - MS Computer Science & Bioinformatics at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English
Github Skills (11)
bioinformatics10
conda10
bash10
package-management10
build-automation10
docker8
macos8
dockers8
cmake7
parallel-processing6
python6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
bioconda/bioconda-recipes
Jun 2020 - Nov 2022
Conda recipes for the bioconda channel.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Build Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Build Automation EngineerContributions:169 reviews, 32 commits, 63 PRs in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Bryce primarily focused on build system and environment configurations for bioinformatics tools. Their contributions included updating build scripts (build.sh), modifying configurations for macOS builds, and incorporating necessary dependencies. They also addressed platform-specific issues, such as CPU count detection for parallel processing, and managed dependencies in the recipes. Furthermore, the user appears to have automated the build and deployment process for several bioinformatics tools in the bioconda repository.
recipescondabiocondabioinformaticspackage-management
bkille/bioconda-recipes
May 2020 - Nov 2024
Conda recipes for the bioconda channel.
Contributions:158 pushes, 19 branches, 1 tag in 4 years 6 months
biocondabioinformaticsrecipesconda
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