Devon Ryan
Head Of Scientific Consulting at Genedata
Greater Freiburg Area Germany
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Devon Ryan is a hybrid neuroscientist and bioinformatician with 12 years of experience translating complex NGS and electrophysiology problems into robust, GMP-ready solutions for pharma, agribusiness and industrial biotech clients. As Head of Scientific Consulting at Genedata he builds and advocates standardized and bespoke pipelines for biosafety, adventitious agent detection and cell heterogeneity profiling while liaising directly with customers to align technical work to critical business needs. His background spans hands-on ion-channel biophysics and computational method development, with prior roles designing LIMS, teaching R/Galaxy, and contributing core features and fixes to widely used open-source projects like MultiQC, deepTools, pysam and Bioconda. Devon is an active community maintainer (BioStars/Bioinformatics StackExchange) and long-term contributor to Galaxy tool repositories, reflecting both DevOps and backend engineering strengths in production genomics. He combines academic rigor from a UCSF PhD with practical product and build-engineering experience, often surfacing non-obvious data patterns from messy datasets to inform decision-making.
12 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Neuroscience, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Neuroscience at University of California, San FranciscoBachelor's degree Biology/Neuroscience, Bachelor's degree Biology/Neuroscience at University of Chicago
English, German
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Github Skills (33)
data-visualizations10
biom10
python10
toolbox10
conda10
data-visualisation10
c1110
c1710
htslib10
cython10
bioinformatics10
data-visualization10
toolz10
wrapper10
data-analysis10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
deeptools/deepTools
Oct 2015 - Jan 2021
Tools to process and analyze deep sequencing data.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:41 releases, 1545 commits, 326 PRs in 5 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Devon primarily contributed to the project by modifying existing functions within several Python scripts, including implementing the `gtfOptions` function. They also worked on merging branches containing new features, specifically those related to interval data manipulation, such as implementing a new `chopRegions` method and modifications for the `hasOverlaps` method. The user's changes often involved refactoring, and incorporating updates to accommodate data types across various scripts.
chip-seqpythonpipelinesequencing-datangs
bioconda/bioconda-recipes
Jan 2016 - Nov 2022
Conda recipes for the bioconda channel.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Build Engineer
Back-end Developer & Build EngineerContributions:2860 reviews, 870 commits, 3905 PRs in 6 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Devon primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of Conda recipes within the bioconda-recipes repository. Their work involved fixing existing recipes for bioinformatics tools like `pyBigWig`, adding new recipes for tools like `pyDNase`, and updating existing package builds such as `preseq`, `UCSC` and others. They also actively addressed build issues, and automated the installation and execution of various scripts within the conda environment.
recipescondabiocondabioinformaticspackage-management
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