Chuck Pepe-ranney
Senior Data Scientist, Computational Biology
Durham, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolChuck Pepe-ranney is a Senior Data Scientist in computational biology with 12 years of experience applying Python and R, cloud-native architectures, and biological expertise to scale genomics analyses. He has built production-grade AWS genomics platforms and serverless APIs that automate workflows for tens of thousands of microbial genomes and power real-time Dash dashboards for scientists. As an adjunct professor at UNC Gillings he teaches tidy data and visualization best practices, bridging academic rigor with industrial data engineering. His background—PhD in Environmental Microbiology and hands-on work in DNA-SIP, microbiome pipelines, and genome comparison—gives him a rare combination of field microbial ecology and large-scale cloud data systems. Colleagues rely on him not just for models and pipelines but for turning complex genomic problems into reproducible, cost-effective tools.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Environmental Microbiology, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Environmental Microbiology at Colorado School of Mines
Github Skills (81)
blast10
taxonomy10
placement10
metagenomics10
bioinformatics10
singularity9
reproducible-science9
mer9
nextflow9
pipeline9
dataflow9
slurm9
clustering9
upstream9
reproducible-research9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
chuckpr/blog
Apr 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:184 pushes, 4 branches in 4 months
chuckpr/chuckpr.github.io
Dec 2019 - Mar 2025
professional blog
Contributions:3 PRs, 245 pushes, 17 branches in 5 years 3 months
professional
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