Eric Roberts
Bioinformatics Engineer
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolEric Roberts is a Bioinformatics Engineer with 13 years of software experience, blending large-scale genomic pipeline development at The Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation with embedded and consumer-facing systems engineering. He has a BASc in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Toronto and a track record building safety-critical aerospace software, game engines for award-winning titles, and custom control systems for hardware-driven wellness products. Eric maintains Bioconda packages and contributes DevOps expertise to ensure reproducible bioinformatics builds, routinely resolving cross-Python compatibility and build issues. Comfortable across low-level drivers, cloud-cluster genomics, and user-facing apps, he’s adept at translating researcher needs into robust, deployable tools that run on diverse compute environments. Notably, he combines hands-on microcontroller control app development with production-grade genomic software maintenance—an uncommon full-stack mix in bioinformatics engineering.
13 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
BASc, Electrical and Computer Engineering, BASc, Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Toronto
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Github Skills (17)
package-management10
conda10
bash10
bioinformatics10
python9
docker8
dockers8
hdf7
pip7
macos6
pypi6
operating-system6
floating-point6
packaging6
numpy6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
bioconda/bioconda-recipes
Apr 2018 - Dec 2022
Conda recipes for the bioconda channel.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Package Maintainer
DevOps Engineer & Package MaintainerContributions:1 review, 30 commits, 51 PRs in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Eric primarily contributed to the maintenance and updating of Bioconda recipes, focusing on package build processes and dependencies. They updated existing recipes for bioinformatics tools like Genomedata, Segway, and GMTK, often addressing version upgrades, build issues, and dependency management. The contributions included modifications to build scripts, ensuring compatibility with various Python versions and incorporating necessary compiler flags.
recipescondabiocondabioinformaticspackage-management
hoffmangroup/genomedata
Apr 2014 - Dec 2022
Contributions:6 releases, 30 reviews, 271 commits in 8 years 8 months
genomics-datastoringscalegenomicsbioinformatics
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