Cameron Nugent
Lead Bioinformatician
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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Top SchoolCameron Nugent is a Lead Bioinformatician with a decade of experience building production-grade genomics infrastructure and machine learning tools for large-scale biological data. Based in Halifax, he has led projects that processed thousands of whole-genome samples, discovered millions of novel markers, and deployed cloud- and cluster-based pipelines that balance resource efficiency with reproducibility. His background spans academic research (PhD) and industry roles where he shipped R and Python packages used by thousands, developed alignment-free sequence classifiers with >99.5% accuracy, and packaged ML models for edge deployment. Comfortable across C++, Go, Python, R and Azure/Slurm environments, he bridges statistical rigor and software engineering to turn terabytes of raw data into actionable biological insight.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Bioinformatics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Bioinformatics at University of GuelphBachelors of Science Honours, Evolutionary Biology, Bachelors of Science Honours, Evolutionary Biology at Queen's University
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Github Skills (75)
data-scraping10
science9
scraper9
plaid9
edgar9
vcf-files9
kaggle9
genome9
hidden-markov-model9
denoising8
sublime-text8
sec8
modular8
genomics8
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
CNuge/kaggle-code
Aug 2017 - Oct 2021
Contributions:196 commits, 3 PRs, 185 pushes in 4 years 3 months
kagglepythonsciencedata-sciencemachine-learning
CNuge/golang-practice
Feb 2018 - Oct 2018
Contributions:125 commits, 102 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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