Enis Afgan
Research Scientist at Johns Hopkins University
Pompano Beach, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEnis Afgan is a research scientist with 16 years of experience building cloud-native platforms that make bioinformatics software “just work,” notably contributing to AnVIL, Galaxy, and the Genomics Virtual Lab. Based at Johns Hopkins, he blends hands-on DevOps (Kubernetes, AWS, OpenStack, Docker) and Python development with PI/Co-PI leadership on multiple NIH and NSF grants and frequent proposal and paper writing. He co-founded GalaxyWorks to commercialize Galaxy capabilities and has deep operational experience automating deployments (CloudMan, CloudBioLinux) and improving Kubernetes-based CI and job resilience. Enis’s GitHub work spans front-end UX improvements for the Galaxy community hub to lower-level infrastructure fixes that harden containerized deployments, reflecting both user-facing and backend expertise. He has a strong academic grounding (PhD-level work) and a history of securing diverse funding mechanisms across US and EU programs. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex distributed-compute requirements into repeatable, production-ready execution environments for genomics research.
16 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Pd.D., Pd.D. at University of Alabama at BirminghamX. gimnazija
English, Croatian, German
Stackoverflow
180reputation
564kreached
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Github Skills (37)
kubernetes10
hub10
docker10
python10
dockers10
cicd10
automation10
kubernetes-pods10
html10
system-administration10
galaxy10
automations10
devops10
cloud-computing9
ubuntu9
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
galaxyproject/galaxy
Mar 2015 - Mar 2025
Data intensive science for everyone.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:29 reviews, 55 PRs, 31 pushes in 10 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Enis's contributions primarily focus on improving the infrastructure and deployment of the Galaxy project, particularly within a Kubernetes environment. They implemented features such as a retry mechanism for deleting Kubernetes jobs and specified the user ID for the Kubernetes image, improving the resilience and configuration of the deployment process. Additionally, they made updates to the Dockerfile and deployment configurations for the Kubernetes CI system, ensuring that the environment is correctly set up and aligned with project requirements.
pythonsciencepipelinednadata-science
galaxyproject/galaxy-hub
Dec 2016 - Jan 2023
Galaxy Community Hub
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:23 reviews, 193 commits, 187 PRs in 6 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Enis primarily focused on updating the user interface and content of the Galaxy Hub. Their contributions include modifying the CloudMan and Jetstream pages, specifically updating linkboxes and fixing sublinks. They also made changes to the navigation bar, and updated the welcome page content. These updates show a focus on UI/UX improvements and information organization.
usegalaxygalaxy
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