Eric Kutschera
Bioinformatics Engineer
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Kutschera is a Bioinformatics Engineer in Philadelphia with 11 years of software and quantitative engineering experience, combining bioinformatics package maintenance with production-grade systems engineering. At Children's Hospital of Philadelphia he applies software engineering rigor to genomics workflows, while earlier roles at trading firms like Spot Trading and SIG sharpened his low-latency C++, Python, and Go skills for real-time systems. He contributes to the widely used bioconda-recipes ecosystem as a DevOps engineer and maintainer, ensuring cross-platform builds and dependency hygiene for bioinformatics tools. Eric pairs a strong academic foundation (BS and MS in Computer Science) with practical expertise in packaging, build tooling, and data pipelines—an unusual blend that lets him move projects from research code to robust, reproducible deployment.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Archbishop Ryan High SchoolUniversity of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignBachelor of Science in Engineering, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Computer Science at University of Pennsylvania
Github Skills (14)
bioinformatics10
bash-shell10
sh10
conda10
bash10
script10
shell10
package-management10
build-automation10
software-packaging9
python8
makefile7
gnu-make7
cicd6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
bioconda/bioconda-recipes
Jun 2020 - Dec 2021
Conda recipes for the bioconda channel.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Package Maintainer
DevOps Engineer & Package MaintainerContributions:2 reviews, 7 commits, 19 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Eric primarily contributed to the bioconda-recipes repository by updating and maintaining recipes for various bioinformatics tools, specifically focused on the rmats and espresso packages. Their contributions involved patching code, updating build scripts, and adjusting dependencies to ensure compatibility and successful builds across different operating systems and architectures, including osx and osx-arm64. They also addressed linting errors, updated package versions, and managed the removal of deprecated configuration files.
recipescondabiocondabioinformaticspackage-management
Xinglab/rmats2sashimiplot
Jun 2020 - Jan 2023
Contributions:2 releases, 1 review, 19 commits in 2 years 7 months
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