Christopher Hakkaart
Education Engineer
Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Hakkaart is an Education Engineer and bioinformatician with five years of experience building communities and tooling for reproducible research, currently at Seqera in Christchurch, New Zealand. He blends a strong academic foundation—a PhD in Genetics from the University of Otago—with hands-on developer advocacy and DevOps work, notably configuring Docker and Gitpod environments for Nextflow training to make complex pipelines more accessible. His background spans cancer genomics research and developer-facing roles, giving him a rare mix of wet-lab insight and practical infrastructure skills. Known for promoting open-source best practices, he focuses on reducing friction in computational workflows so researchers can reliably reproduce and share results. He often operates at the intersection of education, tooling, and community-building, translating technical detail into scalable learning experiences.
5 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Genetics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Genetics at University of Otago
English, German
Github Skills (11)
docker10
dockers10
nextflow10
gitpod9
cicd9
pipeline9
workflow-engine8
bash5
machine-learning4
user-manual4
trainings4
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
nextflow-io/training
Jun 2022 - Jun 2022
Nextflow training material
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:41 reviews, 223 commits, 74 PRs in 20 days
Contributions summary:Christopher primarily focused on configuring and testing the Docker environment for the Nextflow training project. Their contributions involved modifying the `.gitpod.Dockerfile` to install dependencies, test environment variables, and ensure Nextflow functionality within the Gitpod environment. They also made changes to the Nextflow scripts, likely related to resolving errors in the pipeline, and adjusting channel operations.
nextflowtrainingtraining-materialworkflowpipelines
christopher-hakkaart/website
Jul 2022 - Sep 2024
Nextflow public web site
Contributions:1 review, 3 PRs, 44 pushes in 2 years 2 months
web-sitenextflow
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