Desi Quintans
Statistical Programmer
Greater Sydney Area Australia
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Top SchoolDesi Quintans is a statistical programmer based in Greater Sydney with 13 years' experience bridging ecology, microbiology, and clinical research to deliver large-scale, cost-effective science. With a PhD in plant–insect ecology and ongoing master's training in biostatistics, Desi specialises in working with extremely large and highly protected health datasets (EDC, APDC, MBS, PBS) within Trusted Research Environments and in preparing messy commercial and GP data for analysis. They build tools and reproducible R workflows that make complex spatial, linkage, and citizen-science datasets auditable and academically defensible, and have taught functional programming to researchers. Past roles range from DNA lab work and field insect ecology to web development and pastry kitchens, a mix that underpins a practical, detail-oriented approach to data problems. Notably, they have validated thousands of citizen-science observations and integrated multi-source spatial data to inform conservation and fire-response planning.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
The University of SydneyShort course, Introduction to Big Data and Machine Learning, Completed, Short course, Introduction to Big Data and Machine Learning, Completed at Social Research Centre, Australian National UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Plant-insect host specificity versus climate disruption, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Plant-insect host specificity versus climate disruption at Western Sydney UniversityWorkshop, Causal Mediation Analysis, Completed, Workshop, Causal Mediation Analysis, Completed at Victorian Center for Biostatistics
Github Skills (128)
parser10
anova10
data-transformation10
bioconductor10
gt10
gdscript10
dplyr10
journaling10
r-package10
development-environment10
ide10
rstudio10
grammar10
r9
slugify9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
DesiQuintans/Pebble-safe
Feb 2019 - Oct 2021
Contributions:2 releases, 17 commits, 12 pushes in 2 years 8 months
DesiQuintans/CapslockNumpad
Jan 2019 - Dec 2019
Contributions:2 releases, 9 commits, 5 pushes in 1 year
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