Emil Bouvier
Huntsville, Alabama, Norway
Summary
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Top SchoolEmil Bouvier is a pragmatic software developer and computational scientist with 14 years of experience building and maintaining backend, DevOps, and full‑stack systems—particularly in data‑intensive and bioinformatics projects. He contributed significant CI/CD and AWS spot‑instance support to Buildbot and has improved core Galaxy Project tooling, test suites, and bioinformatics tool integrations like Hisat2 and StringTie. Comfortable across system administration, testing, and reproducible research packaging (Bioconda), Emil combines hands‑on engineering with an eye for robustness in headless and cloud environments. Based in Huntsville with roots in Norway, he pairs a lifelong hacker mentality and amateur scientific curiosity with practical production experience supporting research infrastructure. An offbeat communicator and aspiring polymath, he brings a dry wit and broad technical curiosity that helps him bridge developer, ops, and scientific user needs.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
GED, It was a high school., GED, It was a high school. at Coronado High SchoolGED, Electrical Engineering, GED, Electrical Engineering at Olav Duun VGS
Norwegian, English
Github Skills (35)
ec10
integrate10
continuous-integration10
selenium10
package-management10
python10
testing10
spot-instances10
enterprise-integration10
conda10
application-integration10
selenium-ide10
cli-framework10
buildbot10
integrations10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
galaxyproject/tools-iuc
Jul 2014 - Apr 2022
Tool Shed repositories maintained by the Intergalactic Utilities Commission
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:37 reviews, 591 commits, 244 PRs in 7 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Emil primarily contributed to the development of tools and workflows within the Galaxy Project, specifically focusing on bioinformatics tools. Their work included updating and integrating third-party software, such as StringTie and Hisat2, by wrapping them into the Galaxy framework, along with creating data managers for building indices. The user also added a data manager for building Hisat2 indexes. The user's contributions demonstrate a strong understanding of both software integration and the needs of bioinformatics workflows.
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galaxyproject/galaxy
Mar 2018 - Mar 2022
Data intensive science for everyone.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:13 reviews, 5 commits, 120 PRs in 4 years
Contributions summary:Emil made several contributions focused on enhancing the Galaxy project's functionality. These changes include improvements to the compatibility of TSV/CSV conversion in Python, updating the `current_history` method, and modifying the `current_history_contents` method within the Galaxy's Selenium test suite. Additional commits addressed creating and switching history views in the UI, along with adding assertions and implementing tests for admin jobs. The user also updated the selenium navigation in the project.
pythonsciencepipelinednadata-science
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