Denis Yuen
Senior Software Developer at Ontario Institute for Cancer Research
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolDenis Yuen is a senior software developer with 14 years of experience building research-oriented and production-grade bioinformatics software, currently leading sequencing-analysis pipeline work at the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research. He has designed and implemented distributed genomic databases and cloud-native workflow tooling (OpenStack and AWS) that supported large-scale projects like the ICGC/TCGA pan-cancer analysis. His background spans database and machine-learning modules, coordinating prototypes with external teams, and managing testing groups—bridging hands-on engineering with project leadership. Trained in bioinformatics and computer science at the University of Waterloo, he combines deep domain knowledge with a practical focus on architecting scalable analysis platforms and improving reproducible computational workflows.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BMath, Computer Science - Bioinformatics, BMath, Computer Science - Bioinformatics at University of Waterloo
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Github Skills (200)
command-line-interface10
swagger10
dockstore10
reproducible-science10
singularity10
java-bytecode10
api10
scientific-workflow10
reference-implementation10
user-interface10
servlet10
restful10
common-workflow-language10
rest-api10
code-generator10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
SeqWare/seqware
May 2012 - Jul 2018
This is the SeqWare Project's main repo.
Contributions:7 releases, 3412 commits, 86 PRs in 6 years 2 months
main-repo
dockstore/icgc-storage-client-plugin
Feb 2017 - Aug 2024
icgc storage client file provisioning plugin
Contributions:2 PRs, 32 pushes, 4 branches in 7 years 7 months
provisioningbackblazepersistentstorageicgc
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