Evan Thomas
Mathematical Biologist, Hodgkin Lab
Greater Melbourne Area Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolEvan Thomas is a mathematical biologist and software engineer with nearly a decade of experience bridging computational neuroscience and large-scale data management. He develops and applies advanced parameter-handling methods and real-time experimental systems—such as dynamic voltage clamp platforms—to link ion channel biophysics to network-level phenomena like epilepsy, and has generated experimentally validated predictions for intestinal motor circuits. Evan has also built production-grade, high-performance software at Arcitecta for managing trillions of objects and multi-petabyte datasets, and contributed backend and batch-system improvements to the widely used Toil workflow engine. Comfortable across academia and enterprise, he combines deep theoretical training (PhD in computational neuroscience, MA in theoretical physics) with hands-on systems and DevOps expertise, enabling reproducible, scalable science and robust data infrastructure.
9 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
MA, theoretical physics, MA, theoretical physics at State University of New York at Stony BrookThe University of MelbourneMAppSci(IT), Knowledge based systems, I received a High Distinction for 8/9 courses, MAppSci(IT), Knowledge based systems, I received a High Distinction for 8/9 courses at RMIT University
polish (slightly)
Github Skills (16)
mesos10
batch10
slurm10
batchfile10
python10
batch-processing10
devops9
aws9
workflow-engine8
docker8
dockers8
kubernetes6
kubernetes-pods6
pipeline5
wdl5
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
DataBiosphere/toil
Nov 2016 - Sep 2017
A scalable, efficient, cross-platform (Linux/macOS) and easy-to-use workflow engine in pure Python.
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:25 commits, 5 PRs, 56 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Evan primarily contributed to the backend infrastructure and batch system integration within the Toil project. They decoupled batch systems from the core codebase, fixed issues with environment variable passing to the Slurm batch system, and improved its error handling. The user also updated the Mesos batch system and implemented changes in the options and abstract batch system modules, demonstrating skills in system design and batch system management.
pythoncommon-workflow-languagemesosawsslurm
WEHI-ResearchComputing/milton-contrib
Jul 2017 - Jul 2019
Useful scripts and other files for the WEHI HPC
Contributions:15 commits, 8 pushes in 2 years
hpcuseful-scriptshpc-applications
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