Cormac Kinsella
Bioinformatician In Pipeline Development
Uppsala, Sweden
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Top SchoolCormac Kinsella is a computational biologist and bioinformatician with eight years of experience building reproducible Nextflow pipelines and high-performance genomics workflows. Currently developing production pipelines at Uppsala University after roles at Naturhistoriska riksmuseet, Oxford, and a Marie Skłodowska-Curie PhD focused on computational virology, he combines deep domain knowledge in virus genomics with practical engineering for cluster and cloud environments. He has a strong academic foundation from UvA, Harvard, and LMU and a track record of translating research methods into robust, automated analyses for diverse biological datasets. Known for pragmatic pipeline design, he emphasizes scalability, reproducibility, and maintainability across collaborative projects. Outside of work he curates a personal site demonstrating tooling and workflow examples, reflecting a commitment to open science and accessible bioinformatics.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computational Virology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computational Virology at UvAMaster’s Degree, Erasmus Mundus Programme in Evolutionary Biology, Master’s Degree, Erasmus Mundus Programme in Evolutionary Biology at Uppsala UniversityLudwig Maximilian University of MunichBachelor of Science (BSc), Zoology, First Class Honours, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Zoology, First Class Honours at Cardiff University / Prifysgol CaerdyddMaster’s Thesis Project (seconded from LMU), Virus Genomics & Epidemiology, Master’s Thesis Project (seconded from LMU), Virus Genomics & Epidemiology at Harvard University
German, English
Github Skills (51)
package-management10
conda10
bioinformatics10
singularity9
reproducible-science9
slurm9
reproducible-research9
nextflow9
genome9
bioconda9
genomics9
docker8
groovy8
pipeline8
aws8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
CormacKinsella/Metagenomic-virus-host-prediction
Aug 2022 - Sep 2022
Contributions:41 commits, 15 pushes in 1 month
NBISweden/CMK-NBIS-PRT-project-template
Apr 2024 - Jan 2025
Contributions:45 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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