Chen Chen
Software Developer II at Global Alliance for Genomics and Health
Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolChen Chen is a Software Developer II based in Mississauga with a decade of hands-on experience building and testing tools across genomics, web, and industrial systems. Currently contributing to the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health, Chen brings practical expertise in automating genomic workflows and cloud data transfers from prior work at Ontario Institute for Cancer Research. Comfortable across the stack, he has written Java test suites, developed web applications, and integrated hardware systems early in his career—evidence of a pragmatic problem solver who bridges software and physical-world constraints. Known to sing while coding, he blends a collaborative, detail-oriented approach with a curiosity for automation and robust testing. Educated in Computer Science at McMaster University, Chen pairs academic foundations with a track record of shipping measurable improvements to CI and workflow automation.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Computer Science, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Computer Science at McMaster University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (22)
pygame10
drs9
testbed8
retrieval8
starter-kit7
webservice7
pdftables7
jspdf7
python7
api6
data-repository6
specification5
catalog5
javascript5
testing4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ga4gh/ga4gh-doi
Oct 2023 - Jun 2026
Contributions:2 PRs, 7 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 8 months
ICGC-TCGA-PanCancer/oxog_varbam_annotate_wf_runner-jt
Aug 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 768 pushes, 4 branches in 19 days
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