C Brown
Professor at University of California, Davis
Davis, California, United States
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Top SchoolC Brown is a professor of Population Health and Reproduction at UC Davis with 19 years of research and teaching experience and active roles in community data initiatives as Faculty Director of the UC Davis DataLab. He blends academic leadership with hands-on open-source software development, contributing full‑stack UI and documentation improvements to prominent projects like JupyterHub’s BinderHub and backend testing/features to the khmer bioinformatics toolkit. A long‑time Python community member and former Caltech postdoc, he applies computational rigor to biological problems and champions reproducible, cloud‑based research workflows. He blogs and engages on social platforms, signaling a commitment to public-facing science communication in addition to technical stewardship.
19 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
California Institute of Technology
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (15)
markdown10
command-line-tool10
jupyter-notebook10
markdown-it10
python10
sphinx10
testing10
commonmark9
bioinformatics9
javascript8
html8
macos6
matplotlib6
dockers5
docker5
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
dib-lab/khmer
Jun 2010 - Mar 2019
In-memory nucleotide sequence k-mer counting, filtering, graph traversal and more
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:2732 commits, 247 PRs, 902 pushes in 8 years 10 months
Contributions summary:C primarily contributed to the khmer project by implementing new features for the command-line tools, specifically related to k-mer counting and abundance filtering. Their work involved modifying existing Python scripts such as "count-median.py" and "readstats.py" to incorporate new output formats and behaviors. They also added tests to verify the correctness of these new implementations.
memorysequencepythondnabioinformatics
jupyterhub/binderhub
Oct 2017 - Oct 2017
Run your code in the cloud, with technology so advanced, it feels like magic!
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 14 comments in 11 days
Contributions summary:C primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and documentation aspects of the BinderHub project. Their contributions involved integrating markdown support within the application, including adding a markdown badge toggle and updating the index.html template. They also modified the setup.py file and documentation to include the necessary dependencies and configurations related to markdown rendering. Furthermore, they refactored documentation files to improve the project documentation.
jupyter-notebookmagicjupyterbinderjupyterhub
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