Diego Saravia
Bioinformatician
Punta Arenas, Region of Magallanes and Chilean Antarctica
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Top SchoolDiego Saravia is a bioinformatician with nine years of experience combining computational rigor and systems engineering at Universidad de Magallanes, where he currently develops bioinformatics workflows and infrastructure. A fluent Pythonista and Nextflow practitioner, he brings practical expertise in automation, package management, and reproducible pipelines—evidenced by contributions to the widely used Spack package manager updating packages like Nextflow and OpenJDK. His background as a systems administrator and a Master’s in Bioinformatics complement a civil engineering degree in computer science, giving him both operational depth and research-focused analytical skills. Based in Punta Arenas, Chile, he is an open-source enthusiast and dataviz lover who favors tooling that makes complex biological data transparent and reproducible.
9 years of coding experience
Magíster en Bioinformática, Magíster en Bioinformática at Universidad de Magallanes
Spanish, English
Github Skills (8)
build-tools10
package-manager10
python10
java9
javas9
linux7
hpc6
go5
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
spack/spack
Sep 2021 - Oct 2022
A flexible package manager that supports multiple versions, configurations, platforms, and compilers.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Automation EngineerContributions:15 reviews, 14 commits, 28 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Diego primarily contributed to the Spack package manager, adding and updating package definitions for various software. Their work involved modifying Python scripts to incorporate new software versions, including Nextflow and OpenJDK. The user also implemented and maintained package configurations, reflecting skills in build tools and package management.
compilerspythonradiussplatformslinux
catg-umag/ncov2019-ont-nf
May 2021 - May 2022
Nextflow pipeline to process SARS-CoV-2 genomes by Nanopore Sequencing using ARTIC (https://github.com/artic-network/fieldbioinformatics) tools
Contributions:10 releases, 80 commits, 18 PRs in 11 months
genomesnextflow-pipelinepipelinenanoporesequencing
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