Christopher Ball
Senior Devops Engineer at Capital One
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Ball is a Senior DevOps Engineer in Raleigh with eight years of experience building cloud-based, automated solutions that bridge bioinformatics and enterprise engineering. He has progressed from bioinformatics research and pipeline development to leading cloud architecture and program management, recently shaping DevOps practices at Capital One. Skilled in AWS, containerization, workflow orchestration, and reproducible NGS pipelines, he translates complex scientific requirements into production-grade automated systems. Christopher excels in multi-team environments, running training sessions and guiding stakeholders through technical tradeoffs and requirements. Notably, his background in research computing and genomics gives him a practical appreciation for data provenance and reproducibility that informs his infrastructure decisions. He combines hands-on engineering with program-level leadership to deliver reliable, auditable pipelines and cloud platforms.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Professional Science Masters in Bioinformatics, Bioinformatics and Genomics, Graduate, Professional Science Masters in Bioinformatics, Bioinformatics and Genomics, Graduate at University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Github Skills (40)
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nlp7
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pure-python6
event-data6
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python6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
heliumdatacommons/TOPMed_RNAseq_CWL
May 2018 - Nov 2018
TOPMed RNA-seq CWL Workflow developed for Helium DataCommons
Contributions:4 releases, 67 commits, 1 PR in 6 months
heliumcwl-workflowcwlbioinformaticsrna-seq
cmball1/topmed-workflows
Jul 2018 - Sep 2018
a place for topmed workflows
Contributions:14 pushes, 4 branches in 1 month
placeworkflowstopmedworkflow
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